RE: synchronisation question

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Oh !! thanks. That clears it to me.
-vikas


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-----Original Message-----

From: Gaurav Dhiman [mailto:gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:25 PM
To: Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT)
Cc: Hemant Mohapatra; kernelnewbies
Subject: Re: synchronisation question

On 8/29/05, Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT) <Vikas.Aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gaurav Dhiman [mailto:gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 11:59 AM
> To: Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT)
> Cc: Hemant Mohapatra; kernelnewbies
> Subject: Re: synchronisation question
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> On 8/29/05, Aggarwal, Vikas (OFT) <Vikas.Aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Mohapatra
> > Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 2:31 AM
> > To: Gaurav Dhiman
> > Cc: kernelnewbies
> > Subject: Re: synchronisation question
> >
> > On 8/27/05, Gaurav Dhiman <gaurav4lkg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Are you sure of it that cli()/sti() disable the interrupts on all
> > > processors, i think it only disables the interrupts on local CPU.
> Well
> > > the cli() function is defined as follows in
> include/linux/interrupt.h
> >
> > Yup, my bad. kernel 2.6 and above do not allow global interrupt
> > disables. Thanks for pointing it out.
> >
> > Please clear this to me more--
> > Won't there be any synchronization issue between the
interrupt-handler
> > context on CPU1  and process context of CPU0?
> 
> For handling such situation where you manupulate the common data
> structure from both interrupt context and process context and that too
> on SMP machines, you use spin_lock_irqsave() and
> spin_unlock_irqrestore() functions.
> 
> If you have UP machine then using only cli() / local_irq_disable() and
> sti() / local_irq_enable() function will work, no need to use the
> spinlocks in that case.
> 
> Does that mean calling spin_lock_irqsave() from CPU0/process-context
can
> disable the CPU1/interrupt-context?

It will not disable the interrupts on any CPU except the one which is
in critical section (the one who acquire spinlock). In the case you
mentioned, interrupts will still occur on CPU1, but when interrupt
handler will try to acquire the spinlock before entering its critical
section, will start looping on spinlock, till the time the spinlock is
not free by the critical section on CPU0. This is the reason that we
should only use the spinlocks where our critical section is too small,
because we can not afford the interrupt handlers to loop on spinlocks
for longer period of time.

-Gaurav

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> -Gaurav
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