From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: kai@gnukai.com (Kai Meyer)
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:07:31 -0700
Subject: Spinlocks and interrupts
Message-ID: <4EBAEB93.3030008@gnukai.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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When I readup on spinlocks, it seems like I need to choose between 
disabling interrupts and not. If a spinlock_t is never used during an 
interrupt, am I safe to leave interrupts enabled while I hold the lock? 
(Same question for read/write locks if it is different.)

-Kai Meyer