Re: Questions of lock usage in NetBSD kernel code

Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:08:07 -0400

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:22:26AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, in your link
> (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2014/07/19/msg025295.html),
> "KERNEL_LOCK" and "KERNEL_UNLOCK" can be regarded as "mutex_spin_enter" and
> "mutex_spin_exit"?

Not really.  KERNEL_LOCK is a counted lock.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     [email protected]

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