Hi Rodolfo,
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:39:38AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > Nopes, this isn't quite correct/safe. I suggest you should read: > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/ > > I read it but still I don't see why my solution isn't correct/safe. :) What does the section on locking between hard irq contexts (or between user process context and hard irq context) say? > Can you please propose to me your solution? As I said, you could just use the spin_lock_irqsave/restore() variants ... If you want, I can try and implement the other bits that I had suggested for the other things as well :-) Ciao, Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
