[linux-dvb] Re: CRC32 errors in sections

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Jeremy Hall wrote:
> One thing I am looking at now is
> 
> line 1011 of av7110.c, 
> if (av7110->handle2filter[handle])
> 
> Could this create a race condition with its counterpart 3 lines down? or 
> could this be optimized to avoid the same call twice?

Well, it can't be responsible for ARM crashes, but I wonder whether
it is SMP save. On UP there is no race condition because the code is
in an irq handler / tasklet, which can't be interrupted by userspace
closing demux devices.

Regards,
Johannes


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