[parisc-linux] Does it lakes some cloberred r1 in
Grant Grundler
grundler at parisc-linux.org
Wed Apr 26 22:45:13 MDT 2006
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:42:22AM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote:
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> It seems (without a code path audit) that a task could be migrated
> to another cpu while holding an 'in system' spinlock.
Uhm...no. It would violate the basic principle of a spinlock.
Migrating a task from one CPU to another is a context switch.
Can't do that while holding in-kernel spinlocks.
grant
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