Re: [BUG] changeset 9029 (http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/rev/aa3e5cc1d833)

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> [1] If you want to lock a process against an interrupt handler,
> - the process must use spin_lock_irq()
> - the interrupt can use spin_lock()
>
> A routine has to use spin_lock_irqsave if (and only if) process and irq
> call the routine concurrently. I do not see yet how this might happen.

Some code calls the swfilter functions from process context and some
drivers call them from interrupt context.

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