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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in on_each_cpu?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:41:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172749278.10271.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E6BA3A.2040306@vmware.com>

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 03:34 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> What would be really, really nice would be to statically check all 
> callsites that issue irq disables actually keep irqs disabled.  
> Presumably, there was a reason they disabled irqs, and re-enabling them 
> underneath their noses, even if it is to avoid a race, breaks the logic 
> behind that reason.

For the moment, how about a BUG_ON() in on_each_cpu()?

Rusty.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-01 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45E6AC1A.8050608@vmware.com>
     [not found] ` <20070301024524.c7c8ea1a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01 11:34   ` Bug in on_each_cpu? Zachary Amsden
2007-03-01 11:41     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-03-01 11:47       ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-01 15:22         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-01 20:31           ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-02  4:46           ` Ernie Petrides
2007-03-01 15:28     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-01 20:03       ` Zachary Amsden

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