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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:21:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30563.1246566065@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:26 PDT." <20090702124726.a253f13d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:26 PDT, Andrew Morton said:

> apart from having a crappy title, linux-next's
> 
> : commit f29876421ec11f7d66f3d982219ef3af9bcccf32
> : Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> : AuthorDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000
> : Commit: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> : CommitDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000
> :
> : misc:work_on_cpu-acpi
> :
> 
> causes get_throttling() to newly be called from an IPI, and lockdep doesn't
> like irq-disabled interrupt handlers doing local_irq_enable().
> 
> 
> If we rely upon these functions only ever being called from
> smp_call_function_single(), and if smp_call_function_single() is
> correctly implemented, we should be able to do this:

I'll take a leap of faith on the "correctly implemented" part.  However,
I admit I'm probably going to wait till Len or somebody agrees on the
"only calledf from function_single()" part being correct before test-driving
the patch...

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-02 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-07-02 19:47   ` mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded Andrew Morton
2009-07-02 20:21     ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-07-03 10:25     ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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