Uh? I thought it was BAD BAD BAD form to sleep with ANY spinlocks held!
George
>
> > __asm__ __volatile__("pushfl ; popl %0":"=g" (x): /* no input */)
> >
> > (x ist the variable where the IRQ flags are stored)
> > I'm not familiar with x86 assembler; is it possible that something can
> > go wrong here?
>
> This is correct. The flags are pushed then popped into the
> variable provided.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
>
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
>
> I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
> attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
> was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
>
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