From: sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:29:29 +0530 > From: Stanislaw Kardach <skardach@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > The resource locks does not need to be a spinlock as they are not > used in any interrupt handling routines (only in bottom halves). > Therefore relax them into a mutex so that later on we may use them > in routines that might sleep. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Kardach <skardach@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx> This is confusing because software interrupts are often called bottom halves, and in which sleeping and thus mutexes are not allowed.
