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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ajay Singh (ajaysi)" <ajaysi@cisco.com>,
	anubhav rakshit <anubhavrocks@gmail.com>,
	kernel mail <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
	newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need for a new spinlock API?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:51:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174553507.1158.160.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b115cb5f0703212259i31baa281l5efc431d82cac8e7@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:29 +0530, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > The lock contention is between the process or another instance of same
> > ISR on other processor(say uP1) which are waiting for that same spinlock
> > to be released. They will have to wait till old ISR instance finishes on
> > processor (say uP0).
> 
> No, by design there cannot be two instances of your ISR running on two
> seperate processes (since the interrupt is disabled on all processors
> untill the ISR returns).

but the USERCONTEXT on the other cpu ALSO uses this lock, right?
(Otherwise this entire discussion was moot already, that was your
initial premise)
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-22  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-21  3:53 Need for a new spinlock API? Rajat Jain
2007-03-21  7:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-21 18:59   ` anubhav rakshit
2007-03-21 21:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-21 23:07       ` Tzahi Fadida
2007-03-22  1:12       ` Rajat Jain
2007-03-22  4:17         ` Ajay Singh (ajaysi)
2007-03-22  4:33           ` Rajat Jain
2007-03-22  4:55             ` Ajay Singh (ajaysi)
2007-03-22  5:59               ` Rajat Jain
2007-03-22  8:51                 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-03-22  8:50         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-04-04  3:26   ` Rajat Jain
2007-04-04  5:38     ` anubhav rakshit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-04  3:50 GAggarwal
2007-04-04  5:10 ` Rajat Jain
2007-04-04  5:34 GAggarwal

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