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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] That deadlock, again
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:29:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b7a16b6d7ba18893953f5b1c9978f05@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c37a72c526cc8f79c2b35be1c96ec3d@proxima.alt.za>

>If it has to wait, it will panic.  Given that, why do the locking at all?

i assume the intention is along these lines:

it's to allow the use during reset of a given driver's
standard functions that normally must qlock, to avoid requiring two copies
of them, with and without the qlock.

after reset, it's illegal to call qlock without a process (notably
in an interrupt function), as it previously was.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18  5:50 Lucio De Re
2010-11-18  5:53 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18  8:11   ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18  8:35     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-18  9:20     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-18 10:48       ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 15:10         ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 16:46           ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 18:01             ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 18:29               ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2010-11-18 18:23                 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 18:33                 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 18:43               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 18:54                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-18 19:01                 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 19:27                   ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18 18:03           ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-18  5:57 ` Lucio De Re
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-16  4:21 lucio
2010-11-16  4:40 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16  5:03   ` lucio
2010-11-16  5:11     ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-16  5:18       ` lucio
2010-11-16  5:28         ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-16  6:47           ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-16 13:53     ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-16 18:03       ` lucio
2010-11-17  4:08         ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-17  4:18           ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17  4:37             ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-17  4:43               ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17  5:22             ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-17  6:45               ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-17  7:03                 ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-17  7:09                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17  5:33             ` cinap_lenrek
2010-11-17  6:48               ` Lucio De Re
2010-11-17  7:03                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-17 14:40           ` Russ Cox

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