On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 07:27:12PM +0800, Parmenides wrote: > 2. Another statement from Love is that "the kernel can preempt a task > running in the kernel so long as it does not hold a lock". Why is it > not safe while kernel code holding lock? If you preempt while a lock is being held, another task could try to acquire the same lock, causing a deadlock. HTH, Jonathan Neuschäfer _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
