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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dthompson@lnxi.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: EDAC - clean up atomic stuff
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:02:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130947366.2432.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051102162653.4f0b8054.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mer, 2005-11-02 at 16:26 +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well if we retain KM_BOUNCE_READ then we'll need local_irq_save().  If
> edac_mc_scrub_block() will alwyas be called from process context then we
> can use KM_USER0 and leave interrupts enabled.
> 
> Alan, can you confirm please?

Probably best to local_irq_save. Especially considering the likely
direction of updates once it is merged

Alan


      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-02 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-21 13:40 PATCH: EDAC - clean up atomic stuff Alan Cox
2005-10-28 16:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-10-31 15:30   ` Alan Cox
2005-10-31 16:34     ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-10-31 20:02       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-01 12:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-01 12:46           ` Alan Cox
2005-11-01 12:38             ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-02  5:26           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-02 16:02             ` Alan Cox [this message]

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