On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> In short, is this code
>
> spinlock_t LOCK;
> unsigned long FLAGS;
>
> void my_lock(void)
> {
> spin_lock_irqsave(&LOCK, FLAGS);
> }
>
> void my_unlock(void)
> {
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&LOCK, FLAGS);
> }
>
> correct or not?
Hell no. "flags" needs to be a thread-private variable, or at least
protected some way (ie the above could work if everything is inside a
bigger lock, to serialize access to FLAGS).
Linus
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