On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 14:58 +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Can anybody tell me what a kernel_lock() does precisely? Does it lock > all the resources or lock the entire kernel? > Alan Cox explains: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.1/2255.html If you're on lwn the kernel section has even more about it. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
