On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:32:10AM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > I guess you are trying to do a copy_from_user() with a spin-lock > being held or the interrupts otherwise disabled. You can hold > a semaphore, to prevent somebody else from interfering with > you, but you cannot hold a spin-lock during copy/to/from/user().
Well, I didn't write the code (it's right there in drivers/block/loop.c in 2.6.13) and I can't see where there's a spin-lock. In fact it does use a semaphore. imc - 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/
