From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] i386: enable interrupts on contention in spin_lock_irq
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:58:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405260958.21252.baldrick@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14280.1085556586@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
> However I have seen buggy code where spin_lock_irq() was issued with
> interrupts disabled. [...]
Some time ago I sent a patch to lkml that tests for this [1].
And guess what - it happens all over the place [2]. Also, the
scheduler often gets called with interrupts disabled (schedule()
does spin_lock_irq), but the cases I checked all turned out to be
OK [3]. Perhaps it is more problematic now?
Ciao,
Duncan.
[1] http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/5585.html
[2] http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/5842.html
[3] http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/5581.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-26 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-26 7:11 [PATCH][2.6-mm] i386: enable interrupts on contention in spin_lock_irq Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-05-26 7:29 ` Keith Owens
2004-05-26 7:48 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-05-26 7:58 ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2004-05-26 8:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-05-27 1:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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