On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 13:03, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> while ( 1 ) {
> disable_preemption();
> cpu = current_cpu();
> if ( decompression_buffers[cpu] ) {
> do_decompression(decompression_buffers[cpu]);
> enable_preemption();
> break; /* DONE, EXIT LOOP */
> } else {
> enable_preemption();
> down_sem(allocation_semaphore);
> /* Avoid race condition here */
> if ( !decompression_buffers[cpu] )
> decompression_buffers[cpu] = vmalloc(BUFFER_SIZE);
> up_sem(allocation_semaphore);
> }
> }
Just a note, in 2.5 we recently added put_cpu() and get_cpu() that work
basically like:
int cpu;
cpu = get_cpu();
/* critical non-preemptible section */
put_cpu();
i.e., a preempt-safe interface to smp_processor_id() that disables and
enables preemption for you... makes it a little easier.
Robert Love
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