Re: SMP problem with (en|dis)able_bh().

MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:21:20 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The disable/enable_bh() SMP race in the console code if not atomic
> operation are used because one CPU is running the console_bh handler (from
> the keyboard irq handler) and the other CPU is in the write(2) path from
> a proggy.

yep i can now see the race too, nasty.

-- mingo

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