> I know what spinlocks are and do ;) > And I still say that copy_to_user within a spinlock can trigger > deadlock.(and it will once every while) Yes it may. ----- Original Message ----- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl> Date: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:18 pm Subject: Re: Q: deadlock > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:40:44AM +0500, Sumit Agarwal wrote: > > That is ofcourse a deadlock where everyone is running in a tight > loop > > on the processor. But remember once you go to sleep, the > scheduler is > > ready to run. Also you have to be sure that if you have disabled > the > > interrupts on the processor or not. If you are saying > copy_to_user will > > cause a deadlock, then I 'll say it will not. Check the code > again for > > it. > > I know what spinlocks are and do ;) > And I still say that copy_to_user within a spinlock can trigger > deadlock.(and it will once every while) >
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