Subject: Re: auto-spl simple locks
To: None <salvet@ics.muni.cz>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/30/1999 08:07:43 
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:58:17 +0200 (MEST) 
 Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz> wrote:

 > Could you give some typical example of this situation?

Sure:

	(1) pmap structures (when kernel pmap is locked, interrupts must
	    be blocked)

	(2) VM objects (when kmem_object or mb_object are locked, interrupts
	    must be blocked)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>