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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com>
To: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhcs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: in_atomic doesn't count local_irq_disable?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:37:27 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031230133727.5222bfac.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031229190336.A6746@in.ibm.com>

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:03:36 +0530
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> do_page_fault avoids calling this down_read if we are "in_atomic()"
> Isn't in_atomic supposed to count IRQs disabled case? If not
> then shouldn't do_page_fault also check for irqs_disabled() 
> before calling down_read()?

in_atomic() doesn't actually return true if irqs are disabled.

hence "(in_atomic() || irqs_disabled())" in __might_sleep.

do_page_fault should have the same test...

Thanks,
Rusty.
-- 
   there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
   many doers quoting their contemporaries.  -- Larry McVoy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-30  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-29 13:33 in_atomic doesn't count local_irq_disable? Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2003-12-29 13:35 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2003-12-30  2:37 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-29 15:13 Manfred Spraul
2003-12-30 13:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri

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