Re: Disabling interrupts in 2.4.x

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 16:39:39 EST


> I would expect this function to disable interrupts, but given the scale of
> change between 2.2.x spinlock.h and 2.4.x spinlock.h I'm just not sure
> anymore.

spin_lock_irqsave disables interrupts but only on the CPU that the lock
is taken.

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