spin_lock behavior

[Daniel Baluta]

Hello,

> I wrote a sample module which looked like this and i expected the module to
> hang as i have used 2 spin_lock simultaneously. But i find the print after
> the second spin_lock being printed and the module works perfectly fine. Can
> any body please help me in understanding this? I got this problem from a
> driver i wrote and had a typo "spin_lock" instead of "spin_unlock" the
> driver worked fine and i caught the mistake only during a review

Are you running your tests on an UP with preemption disabled?

thanks,
Daniel.