From: Matti Linnanvuori Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~630 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f20fda486164264e0c9a64f3256b3238d0dc78d7;p=linux-2.6 Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt index cbf79881a4..51f935191a 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 6a735c72f2..601479772b 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