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SubjectRe: spinlocks() are severely broken in 2.2.X and 2.4.X for modules
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Gérard Roudier wrote:
> I didn't know that the irq_restore() for a given irq_save() must also be
> performed in the context of the same function. Thanks for the information.
> Is it related to the flags containing informations about function's local
> resources ? (registers used, ...)

it is documented in one of Rusty's Unreliable Guides -
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl

grep for something indecent and thou shalt find :)

Regards,
Tigran



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