> That's a problem looking for a solution! No, the reason for wanting a
> recursive spinlock is that nonrecursive locks make programming harder.
And more correct.
> Though I've got quite good at finding and removing deadlocks in my old
> age, there are still two popular ways that the rest of the world's
> prgrammers often shoot themselves in the foot with a spinlock:
>
> a) sleeping while holding the spinlock
> b) taking the spinlock in a subroutine while you already have it
So ... we should BUG() on both.
M.
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