From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
"Florin Iucha" <florin@iucha.net>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "upping" a semaphore from interrupt context?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:52:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706231752.08494.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0706230842l141cf400tb2f5645b6b6537fe@mail.gmail.com>
Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 schrieb Satyam Sharma:
> * 3. set up a timer and schedule another function to service the
> * interrupt / do what needs to be done then, hopefully the mutex
> * would be uncontended then => *gargh*
You could use schedule_work(). However then why not use it always.
This would make sense if what you want to do is outright trivial.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 17:38 Florin Iucha
2007-06-22 17:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-23 11:52 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-23 12:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-23 12:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-23 15:42 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 15:52 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2007-06-23 17:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-23 16:11 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-23 17:16 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-24 15:25 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-24 16:45 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-24 16:59 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-24 18:12 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-22 17:50 ` Satyam Sharma
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