Re: SCHED_IDLE patch is a source of DoS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:52:40 +0000 (GMT)


> I never examined lock/unlock_kernel(). Right now I don' t know how they
> are used for. If somebody would say two (really only two) words about that
> functions I could understand them faster when I' ll browse the C code.

Its a lock only one process can hold but my hold it more than once and
is automatically dropped on a context switch and regained on rescheduling
of that task

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