On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 11:51:59 +0100,
Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>and a lot of other places simply use "save_flags(flags); cli();
>restore_flags()". Can someone enlighten me how this is supposed to work
>on SMP machines ? AFAIK "cli()" only disables IRQs on the local
>CPU so a different CPU could easily stumple half way as this
>is definitly non atomic.
cli() is not the cli instruction anymore. On smp cli() maps to
__global_cli() which is responsible for disabling interrupts on the
other processors. See __global_cli in arch/*/kernel/irq.c.
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