From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: interrupt checks for spinlocks
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:53:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021104005339.GA16347@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021103194249.A1603@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
>>>> (1) check that spinlocks are not taken in interrupt context without
>>>> interrupts disabled
At some point in the past, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>>> Bill, why is this bad? I routinely use this technique.
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
>> If you receive the same interrupt on the same cpu and re-enter code
>> that does that, you will deadlock.
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:42:49PM -0500, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> How would that happen? I thought it was not possible to re-enter
> an interrupt, and that it was pretty fundamental for Linux.
> When did we allow it, and what are implications for architectures?
This non-reentrant stuff hurts my head. Another patch down the
toilet, I guess.
Bill
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2002-11-04 0:42 ` interrupt checks for spinlocks Pete Zaitcev
2002-11-04 0:53 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-11-04 1:18 ` Robert Love
2002-11-04 1:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 3:01 ` Robert Love
2002-11-04 3:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 3:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 3:36 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-03 22:08 William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 0:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-04 0:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 1:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-04 1:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-04 5:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-11-04 15:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-04 13:31 ` Alan Cox
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