Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers in Linux 2.6.23-rc
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PATCH 1/1 Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers in Linux 2.6.23-rc
Documentation/mutex-design.txt 2007-09-09 21:48:17.935493000 +0300 renamed from Documentation/mutex-design.txt 2007-09-09 21:47:10.545275000 +0300 +2 -1
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ of advantages of mutexes: * - task may not exit with mutex held * - memory areas where held locks reside must not be freed * - held mutexes must not be reinitialized - * - mutexes may not be used in irq contexts + * - mutexes may not be used in hardware or software interrupt + * contexts such as tasklets and timers furthermore, there are also convenience features in the debugging code:
include/linux/mutex.h 2007-09-09 21:49:44.946525500 +0300 renamed from include/linux/mutex.h 2007-09-09 21:49:04.531143500 +0300 +2 -1
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ * - task may not exit with mutex held * - memory areas where held locks reside must not be freed * - held mutexes must not be reinitialized - * - mutexes may not be used in irq contexts + * - mutexes may not be used in hardware or software interrupt + * contexts such as tasklets and timers * * These semantics are fully enforced when DEBUG_MUTEXES is * enabled. Furthermore, besides enforcing the above rules, the mutex
Signed-off-by Matti Linnanvuori <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:02:53 -0700 (PDT)
Matti Linnanvuori <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
thank you for improving the documentation
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linux-2.6.23/Documentation/mutex-design.txtlinux-2.6.23-patched/Documentation/mutex-design.txt---Signed-off-by Matti Linnanvuori <[email protected]>
Acked-by Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>