Re: Questions of lock usage in NetBSD kernel code

Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:20:03 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.smp
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 25.06.2017 20:34, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Sleeping with a spin lock held is absolutely prohibited and does not
> work.
> 

An example of this abuse is described here:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2014/07/19/msg025295.html

Jia-Ju, can you detect bugs like this one?

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