On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:17:05PM -0000, David Wooff wrote: > I have a "bottom half" processing function which I'm queueing from an > interrupt on a workqueue. Is it OK/safe to also queue the same function > on the same workqueue from the driver in response to an application > read/write? I have read LDD3 and looked for workqueues in the > documentation and consulted various other sources but I can't figure out > if this is safe by design (without trying it obviously).
Yes, it is safe. See kernel/workqueue.c: queue_work -> queue_work_on -> __queue_work -> spin_lock_irqsave Best regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
