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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:09:30 -0400
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
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Subject: Re: question on spinlocks
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>> > No; spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore and spin_lock/spin_unlock
>> > have to be used in matching pairs.
>[...] 
> OK, how do I drop an irqsave spinlock if I don't have flags?

It was a good thing you didn't have flags, because everything
that passes flags as arguments blows up on sparc immediately.

Most likely answer is "restructure your locking".

-- Pete
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