On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 04:07:17PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:48:55AM +0200, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> >
> > Looks ok if OSDSetBlock is _never_ used by more than one thread at the
> > same time. Otherwise, some race conditions might occur.
> >
> > Anyway, as the OSD interface has state variables like av7110->osdwin
> > it is not thread-safe 'by design'.
>
> av7110_osd_cmd() is protected by av7110->osd_sema. Where
> do you think there is a race condition?
If really a preemptiv kernel is used not only the
user space access but also tasklets may matter.
Werner
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