Commit f20fda48 authored by Matti Linnanvuori's avatar Matti Linnanvuori Committed by Linus Torvalds

Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers

Acked-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1019f96d
......@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ of advantages of mutexes:
* - task may not exit with mutex held
* - memory areas where held locks reside must not be freed
* - held mutexes must not be reinitialized
* - mutexes may not be used in irq contexts
* - mutexes may not be used in hardware or software interrupt
* contexts such as tasklets and timers
furthermore, there are also convenience features in the debugging
code:
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......@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
* - task may not exit with mutex held
* - memory areas where held locks reside must not be freed
* - held mutexes must not be reinitialized
* - mutexes may not be used in irq contexts
* - mutexes may not be used in hardware or software interrupt
* contexts such as tasklets and timers
*
* These semantics are fully enforced when DEBUG_MUTEXES is
* enabled. Furthermore, besides enforcing the above rules, the mutex
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