Changeset 7e58979 in mainline for kernel/generic/src/synch/spinlock.c

Timestamp:

2007-04-07T22:30:01Z (18 years ago)

Author:

Jakub Jermar <jakub@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

7bcfbbc

Parents:

201abde

Message:

On SMP amd64 and ia32 systems, release the irq→lock
before calling clock() from the interrupt handler.
This is important for maintaining kernel preemption
since no preemption can take place while a spinlock
is held.

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