From: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: oakad@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tifm: avoid inconsistent lock state
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:39:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63a49ef40904110839w53cde9c6k1a261effd1338942@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090410160137.2f6261ff.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dear Sir Morton,
2009/4/11 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
[...]
> tifm_7xx1_isr() can legitimately use spin_lock() on that lock, because
> it's running in hard IRQ context and "knows" that tifm_7xx1_isr()
> cannot be reentered on this CPU while it is running.
[...]
Thank you for reply and explanation.
Ciao,
Alessio
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 14:52 Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-10 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-11 15:39 ` Alessio Igor Bogani [this message]
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