Re: [PATCH] spinlock not locked when unlocking in atm_dev_register

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
01 Mar 2002 17:15:48 -0500


On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 12:46, Frode Isaksen wrote:
> If you compile the kernel with SMP and spinlock debugging, BUG() will be
> called when registering your atm driver, since the "atm_dev_lock" spinlock is
> not locked when unlocking it.

I don't have any knowledge of the source in question, but wouldn't a
possibility (perhaps even more likely) be that you should _add_ the
spin_lock instead of remove the spin_unlocks ?

Robert Love

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