On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Is this an interrupt deadlock, or do you not allow interrupt contexts
> > to even trylock a mutex?
>
> correct, no irq contexts are allowed. This is also checked for if
> CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is enabled.
Note that semaphores are definitely used from interrupt context, and as
such you can't replace them with mutexes if you do this.
The prime example is the console semaphore. See kernel/printk.c, look for
"down_trylock()", and realize that they are all about interrupts.
Linus
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