Locking in the Linux Kernel
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-If I could give you one piece of advice: never sleep with anyone crazier
-than yourself. But if I had to give you advice on locking: **keep it
-simple**.
+If I could give you one piece of advice on locking: **keep it simple**.
Be reluctant to introduce new locks.
-Strangely enough, this last one is the exact reverse of my advice when
-you **have** slept with someone crazier than yourself. And you should
-think about getting a big dog.
-
Two Main Types of Kernel Locks: Spinlocks and Mutexes
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half will be running at any time.
Hardware Interrupt / Hardware IRQ
- Hardware interrupt request. in_irq() returns true in a
+ Hardware interrupt request. in_hardirq() returns true in a
hardware interrupt handler.
Interrupt Context
(``CONFIG_SMP=y``).
Software Interrupt / softirq
- Software interrupt handler. in_irq() returns false;
+ Software interrupt handler. in_hardirq() returns false;
in_softirq() returns true. Tasklets and softirqs both
fall into the category of 'software interrupts'.