From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Brian_Boerner@adaptec.com (Boerner, Brian)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.redhat.com')
Subject: Re: Disabling interrupts in 2.4.x
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:39:39 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14880U-0006Ev-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9EF680C48EAD311BDF400C04FA07B612D4DA4@ntcexc02.ntc.adaptec.com> from "Boerner, Brian" at Dec 18, 2000 02:57:19 PM
> I would expect this function to disable interrupts, but given the scale of
> change between 2.2.x spinlock.h and 2.4.x spinlock.h I'm just not sure
> anymore.
spin_lock_irqsave disables interrupts but only on the CPU that the lock
is taken.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-18 19:57 Boerner, Brian
2000-12-18 20:17 ` Andi Kleen
2000-12-18 21:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-12-18 20:24 Boerner, Brian
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