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Commit: f20fda486164264e0c9a64f3256b3238d0dc78d7
Parent: 1019f96d2d3aa4997d8055bd0c32c97f0fc21d06
Author: Matti Linnanvuori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Tue Oct 16 23:29:41 2007 -0700
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Oct 17 08:42:57 2007 -0700
Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and
timers
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/mutex-design.txt | 3 ++-
include/linux/mutex.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
index cbf7988..51f9351 100644
--- a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
@@ -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:
diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
index 6a735c7..6014797 100644
--- a/include/linux/mutex.h
+++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
@@ -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
-
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