> Is it correct that drivers which call {interruptible_,}sleep_on can miss
> wakeup events unless they either own the big kernel lock or the
> global-cli lock before calling sleep_on()?
>
[SNIPPED]
The opposite. Nobody can sleep if a global lock is held or the interrupts
are disabled. To do so is death.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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