Hi, every one in LKML.
I have one question about how to use spin_lock.
I read Documentation/spinlocks.txt wrote by Linus. The Lesson 1 and
2 are simple for me.
But I confused in Lesson 3. The most doublt is why we can not use
spin_lock_irq*() version in
interrupt handler?
At i386, I known the interrupt is disabled in interrupt handler. I
think this feature is
supplied in handware-level. The spin_lock_irqrestore() will use 'sti'
instruction internal, it will change interrupt mask bit in FLAGS
register, do this have re-enable interrupt, even in interrput handler? I
can not sure this.
Thanks in advanced.
-liyu
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