linux-kernel - Re: Use of mutex in interrupt context flawed/impossible, need advice.

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Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:19:44 +0100
From:	"Leon Woestenberg" <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
To:	"Oliver Neukum" <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Use of mutex in interrupt context flawed/impossible, need advice.

Hello,

On Nov 22, 2007 5:11 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 22 November 2007 schrieb Leon Woestenberg:
> > I would like to know why this is not so, and if someone has a cleaner
> > proposal than the "try spinlock" approach?
>
> Keep the semaphore.
>
I forgot to mention that I would like to be prepared for, and use the
-rt patch soon. I understand (maybe wrongly?) that semaphores are not
real-time pre-emptible, mutexes and spinlocks are.

Regards,
-- 
Leon
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