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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:35:40 +0530 (IST)
From: Manoj Sontakke <manojs@sasken.com>
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Subject: spinlock help
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Hi
Thankx in idvance for the help.

1. when spin_lock_irqsave() function is called the subsequent code is
executed untill spin_unloc_irqrestore()is called. is this right?
2. is this sequence valid?
	spin_lock_irqsave(a,b);
	spin_lock_irqsave(c,d);

Manoj

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