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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: submit_bh leaves interrupts on upon return
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:50:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603085002.GG28915@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40BE93DC.6040501@drdos.com>

On Wed, Jun 02 2004, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> Any reason why submit_bh should turn on interrupts after being called by 
> a process with ints off in 2.4.20?  I see it's possible to sleep during 
> elevatoring, but why does it need to leave interrupts on if the calling 
> state was with ints off.  

It's illegal to call it with interrupts off, so... __make_request()
doesn't save interrupt state, so you will always leave with interrupts
enabled.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-03  2:58 submit_bh leaves interrupts on upon return Jeff V. Merkey
2004-06-03  8:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-06-03 20:46   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-06-03 16:52     ` Jens Axboe
2004-06-03 20:59       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-06-03 17:03         ` Jens Axboe
2004-06-03 17:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-03 17:34             ` Jens Axboe
2004-06-03 23:56             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-06-03 21:17           ` Jeff V. Merkey

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