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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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To: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [19/58] x86_64: Don't use softirq save locks in smp_call_function
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:19:43 +0200
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On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:16:48 Satyam Sharma wrote:

>
> > Can't do a WARN_ON unfortunately because it could trigger in the
> > panic case.
> 
> But this is not true at all. This function doesn't come anywhere
> on the panic codepath.


You're wrong.

-Andi