Re: programming for preemption (was: [PATCH] 2.5.46: access permission filesystem)

Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-11T23:57:18Z

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Olaf Dietsche wrote:

> Thanks for this hint. So this means kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) inside
> spinlock is not necessarily dangerous, but should be avoided if
> possible? Is using a semaphore better than using spinlocks? Is
> there a list of dos and don'ts for preempt kernels beside
> Documentation/preempt-locking.txt?
>
> And btw, who is "us"?

The Cab^Kernel developers ;)

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