Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:58:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: programming for preemption (was: [PATCH] 2.5.46: access permission filesystem) |
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> Thanks for this hint. So this means kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) inside > spinlock is not necessarily dangerous, but should be avoided if > possible? Is using a semaphore better than using spinlocks? Is > there a list of dos and don'ts for preempt kernels beside > Documentation/preempt-locking.txt? > > And btw, who is "us"?
The Cab^Kernel developers ;)
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