On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Oliver Endriss wrote: > [1] If you want to lock a process against an interrupt handler, > - the process must use spin_lock_irq() > - the interrupt can use spin_lock() > > A routine has to use spin_lock_irqsave if (and only if) process and irq > call the routine concurrently. I do not see yet how this might happen. Some code calls the swfilter functions from process context and some drivers call them from interrupt context. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
