From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:15:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:15:20 -0400 Received: from cp1s4p1.dashmail.net ([216.36.32.37]:39688 "EHLO sr71.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 01:15:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3BCA70DD.524D0D1@sr71.net> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:15:09 -0700 From: "David C. Hansen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abhishek Rai CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question : spinlock In-Reply-To: <20011013140756.24222.qmail@web11401.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Abhishek Rai wrote: > > > Can anybody tell me/ direct me to some tutorial/web > > site/manual etc/ where i can gather the concepts of > > Spin locks in linux, and get a good idea of the > > commonly used functions like : spin_lock_irqsave() > > etc. > > abhishek This is a pretty comprehensive list of all global spinlocks in the kernel. It simply summarizes how they are used. http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/ -- David C. Hansen dave@sr71.net ICQ: 7785546 AIM: HansenDC79