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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2005 17:38:45 +0200
From:      "Norbert Koch" <NKoch@demig.de>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   mutual exclusion in vkbd
Message-ID:  <000001c565f6$d46b7720$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG>

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Hello.

I am currently trying to backport vkbd to FreeBSD 4.

Maksim Yevmenkin uses mtx_lock()/mtx_unlock() for
protecting access to data structures under FreeBSD 5/6
between the device functions and the kernel thread.

How should I best do this under FreeBSD 4?

Would something like splhigh() work in that context?
Or should I use lockmgr with LK_EXCLUSIVE/LK_RELEASE?
Is there any (pseudo)process context inside a kernel task?

Thank you for any help,

Norbert Koch



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