spin_lock_irqsave and multi-core

gshan Gavin.Shan at alcatel-lucent.com
Thu Apr 1 12:59:33 EST 2010


I got a question when reading source code. Hope somebody can give me the 
answer.
On multi-core system, spin_lock_irqsave() can stop all CPU cores 
receiving interrupts?
If the answer is no, what we can do to disable external interrupt for 
all CPU cores?

Thanks,
Gavin


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