From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:34:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135978466.32431.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135978110.6039.81.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:28 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&remove_proc_lock, flags);
...
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&remove_proc_lock, flags);
Why do an irqsave here? Are you not sure what context it gets called
from?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-30 20:04 [Question] race condition with remove_proc_entry Steven Rostedt
2005-12-30 21:28 ` [PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry Steven Rostedt
2005-12-30 21:34 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2005-12-30 21:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-30 21:55 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-12-30 22:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-30 22:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-04 9:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-04 12:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-05 1:48 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2006-01-07 11:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-30 22:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-30 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-31 6:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-31 8:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-31 8:53 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-04 9:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-04 11:27 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-01-02 13:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-07 11:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-07 12:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-09 19:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-10 0:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-10 1:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 13:26 ` Steven Rostedt
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