On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:36:58 +0530 Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you look? workqueue_mutex is used to protect per-cpu workqueue > > resources. The lock is taken prior to modification of per-cpu resources > > and is released after their modification. Very very simple. > > I did and there is no lock named workqueue_mutex. workqueue_cpu_callback() > is farily simple and doesn't have the issues in cpufreq that > we are talking about (lock_cpu_hotplug() in cpu callback path). http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b41ea7289a589993d3daabc61f999b4147872c4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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