> I'm doing spin_lock_irqsave() then in another function
> spin_unlock_irqrestore. Is that okay? If no, can it cause "scheduling
> in atomic"?
It is not OK if the function is run by a different process. Then one
process will have a preempt_count one larger than it should and one
would have a preempt_count one smaller.
The task with the one smaller preempt_count will probably cause a crash
when it preemptively reschedules erroneously.
In other words, you have:
Process A Process B
preempt_count++
preempt_count--
When both of those routines need to be done by the same process.
Also, you cannot use spin_lock_irqsave() in different functions at all
on sparc as it contains stack information.
Robert Love
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