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SubjectRe: SMP linux help
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Mark Cooke wrote:

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> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:
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> > * Does "lock the kernel" mean "prevent anyone else from executing any
> > kernel code"?
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> No.
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> When you have the kernel lock you can guarantee that accesses to
> anything else protected by the kernel lock can't happen.

Okay, so "locking the kernel" is really a misnomer. It doesn't lock the
whole kernel, just the sections protected by the kernel lock; and there's
nothing more magical about the kernel lock than any other spinlock, it
just protects more stuff. Got it.

Thanks to all who replied for clarifying this.



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