From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: generic sleeping locks?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:19:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A3F7C7C.988458AF@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E148AIe-0000UM-00@halfway>
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> In message <3A3E98E9.F68BC13A@inet.com> you write:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are there blocking lock primitives already defined somewhere in the
> > > > kernel?
> > >
> > > down and up are normally appropriate for this
> >
> > Ungh. Forest. Trees. *sigh* Sorry for the dumb question.
> > Thanks for the reply Alan. :)
> >
> > Ok, second part of the question: What about blocking read/write locks
> > (with _interruptible variants)?
>
> Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking*
>
> Rusty.
> --
> Hacking time.
Perhaps I should have specified that I'm working with 2.2.xy....
I'll d/l a 2.4.0-test and look at the docbook in that. Thanks for the
pointer.
Eli
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-18 22:54 generic sleeping locks? Eli Carter
2000-12-18 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 23:08 ` Eli Carter
2000-12-19 0:06 ` Rusty Russell
2000-12-19 15:19 ` Eli Carter [this message]
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