On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:09:55 +0100
Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:04:07PM +0100, Frank Wille wrote:
> > [...] May I acquire this mutex during a callout (which is a
> > softint, as I understand)? Will the softint sleep or busy-wait?
>
> Depends on the mutex type, from mutex(9):
> [...]
> Adaptive mutexes cannot be acquired from a hardware
> interrupt handler.
> [...]
> The wording is not explicit, but a softint is not allowed to block on
> an adaptive mutex,
Yes, this is what I thought as well, but the man page only mentions
hardware interrupts. Are you sure about it?
Hmmm... from softint(9):
[...] Unlike hardware interrupts,
software interrupts do have thread context. They may block on synchro-
nization objects, sleep, and resume execution at a later time.
[...]
IMHO that would allow my callout to sleep on acquiring the mutex?
--
Frank Wille
