Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Mar 2002 09:29:26 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spinlock not locked when unlocking in atm_dev_register | From | Frode Isaksen <> |
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> On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:46, Frode Isaksen wrote: >> If you compile the kernel with SMP and spinlock debugging, BUG() will be >> called when registering your atm driver, since the "atm_dev_lock" spinlock is >> not locked when unlocking it. > > I don't have any knowledge of the source in question, but wouldn't a > possibility (perhaps even more likely) be that you should _add_ the > spin_lock instead of remove the spin_unlocks ? The atm_dev_register function is calling functions that are using the same spinlock, so you cannot just lock the spinlock when entering the function..
Hilsen, Frode
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