Re: PI mutex support on ARM

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On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 22:17 +0200, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hello Ingo,
> 
> > patch format problem: never diff the asm/ files, diff the asm-arm/ files.
> Yeah, of course, I know, I believe I made a real mess of this one ...
> 
> > is it safe to do a get_user() with irqs off?
> rhetorical question ;-))
> I was wondering, Is it safe to use a normal spinlock here, like this?

if get_user() isn't allowed with irq's off (and in general it's not,
maybe arm is special) then it also isn't allowed with spinlocks held..



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