Re: [PATCH] spinlock not locked when unlocking in

Maksim Krasnyanskiy (maxk@qualcomm.com)
Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:32:24 -0800


> > 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 ?
Absolutely correct :)
I've got a patch for that, tested on SMP. I'll send it today or tomorrow.

btw ATM locking seems to be messed up. Is anybody working on that ?

Max

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