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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: ARM: Disable preemption along with interrupts during shutdown
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:22:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508152220.GG3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKZGPAMwqWP44Cv7V11Q+8Ykdt=3huFCRi-eKKSt5d9zPp8H+w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:46:21PM +0530, Arun KS wrote:
> What if we fall in a path which calls spin_unlock_irq().
> Interrupts will get enabled and only preempt_count will help to bail
> out early from preempt_schedule().
> I recently hit a similar situation.

Use of spin_lock_irq()..spin_unlock_irq() in code which was entered with
interrupts already disabled is a bug in itself.

Papering over it with preempt_disable() is not an option.  /Always/ fix
the real problem, never paper over stuff like this.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08 13:23 ARM: Disable preemption along with interrupts during shutdown arunks.linux at gmail.com
2014-05-08 13:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-08 14:16   ` Arun KS
2014-05-08 15:22     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-05-09  2:43       ` Arun KS

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