On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:15:24AM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 06:00:31PM -0800, John Stultz wrote: > > So what is serializing access to the timestamp_event_queue here? I don't > > see any usage of tsevq_mux by the callers. Am I missing it? It looks > > like its called from interrupt context, so do you really need a spinlock > > and not a mutex here? > > The external timestamp FIFO is written only from interrupt context.
Oops, I lied. After reworking the phyter driver, I find that I want to enqueue time stamps from non-interrupt contexts, too. So, you are right. This will need a spin lock... Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
