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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Matti Linnanvuori" <mattilinn@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] doc: add a chapter about trylock functions [Bug 9011]
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:30:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805151030.18959.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0148c30805130831h11fe0ca0qf501bd07d1141940@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 01:31:47 Matti Linnanvuori wrote:
> +    <function>mutex_trylock()</function> does not suspend your task
> +    but returns non-zero if it could lock the mutex on the first try
> +    or 0 if not. This function cannot be safely used in hardware or
> +    software interrupt contexts despite not sleeping.

I know this is what the documentation says, but I can't see why.  Ingo?

Thanks,
Rusty.
PS. Patch fixed up and applied.

       reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ca0148c30805130831h11fe0ca0qf501bd07d1141940@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-15  0:30 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-05-16 12:21   ` [patch] doc: add a chapter about trylock functions [Bug 9011] Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-04  7:32 Matti Linnanvuori

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