Re: I386 cli

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, David Grothe wrote:

> In 2.5.41every architecture except Intel 386 has a "#define cli 
> <something>" in its asm-arch/system.h file.  Is there supposed to be such a 
> define in asm-i386/system.h?  If not, where does the "official" definition 
> of cli() live for Intel?  Or what is the include file that one needs to 
> pick it up?  I can't find it.
> Thanks,
> Dave

Grep for 'spin_lock'.  You can't just use `cli` alone. It won't protect
the critical section. You probably need:

	spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
        //.... critical section
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, flags);

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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