On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:02:15AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > BTW can NMI handler take spinlocks?
No -- that is, yes you can using trylock, but you still shouldn't. > If it can what happens if NMI is > delivered in a section protected by local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore()? You deadlock. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
