Re: Exclusive control

bz800k@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I'm making a driver.
A tasklet is called from interrupt handler.
The driver supports read/write system call.

A tasklet and the read/write routines access the same resources.

In this case will exclusive control ,between tasklet and read/write,
be necessary?

See

<URL:http://people.netfilter.org/~rusty/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking/kernel-locking.docbook/lock-user-bh.html>

and

<URL:http://people.netfilter.org/~rusty/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking/kernel-locking.docbook/lock-user-tasklet.html>

.

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