On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 19:38 +0530, Ranjan Sinha wrote: > Hi, > > A very newbie question on locking. > > LDD3 talks about spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_restore and > mentions that the two _must_ be called from the same function or the > code might break on some architecture. I searched for this on google > and found that one of the platform on which it can break is sparc. this is no longer the case; it used to be like that in older kernels, but that got fixed for 2.6 kernels. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
