Chapter 6. Locking on SMP
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## Chapter 6. Locking on SMP

The locking of chip registers is up to the architecture that defines the chip primitives. There is a chip->lock field that can be used for serialization, but the generic layer does not touch it. The per-irq structure is protected via desc->lock, by the generic layer.

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