On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Additionally, as a side-effect we get a 'free' debugging check for
> schedule():
>
> if (current->spinlock_depth)
> BUG();
>
> this temporary debugging aid catches illegal spinlock uses. (which does
> happen quite often)
FWIW running an SMP kernel on UP is an excellent way to catch spinlock
bugs... Thanks to Andrea for the tip too, it has been invaluable :)
Jeff
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