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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respin local_irq_*_nmi() stuff.
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:46:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100413.014631.45686537.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271147834.4807.980.camel@twins>

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:37:14 +0200

> Hmm, it also assumes %pil is never anything other than 0,
> PIL_NORMAL_MAX, PIL_NMI, because if:
> 
>   (%pil & 1) && (%pil != PIL_NMI)
> 
> then you'll end up disabling NMIs. Could something like that ever
> happen?

The only values we ever program into the %pil are 0, PIL_NORMAL_MAX
and PIL_NMI

Since PIL_NMI is the largest %pil value and all bits are set in it
(0xf), it doesn't matter what PIL_NORMAL_MAX actually is.

Yes this all deserves a comment, I'll add one, thanks for pointing
that out.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 23:01 [PATCH 0/4]: Respin local_irq_*_nmi() stuff David Miller
2010-04-09 23:01 ` David Miller
2010-04-13  5:08 ` David Miller
2010-04-13  7:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-13  7:56     ` David Miller
2010-04-13  8:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-13  8:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-13  8:46         ` David Miller [this message]

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