hi what is spin lock?
thanks ankit --- "Dhiman, Gaurav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use either semaphore or spin locks for mutual > exclusion > > Gaurav > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Rakesh Jagota > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:03 AM > To: kernelnewbies > Subject: Mutual Exclusion in Kernel > > Hello All, > > I have defined one array of structures in the kernel > which can be seen > by > all the modules. Now I would like to have mutual > exclusion , that is if > any > module is accessing the array ,no other module > should not access the > same > array, since it is a global array. > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > Rakesh > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs