On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 00:30 -0500, Gopu Bhaskar wrote: > Is it OK to sleep when interrupts are disabled ? > The following is the implementation of interruptible_sleep_on in 2.6.10 > Here we see that interrupts are disabled before schedule is called and > enabled back only when the control comes back. I wanted to know the > reason for doing this. And also whether sleeping with interrupts disabled > has any negetive impact. you should never use any of these functions. THey're there for legacy reasons but they are known broken and severely deprecated. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
