# Re: \[PATCH\] tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

- From: Steven Rostedt \<rostedt@goodmis.org\>
- Date: 2023-07-21 16:30:33 
- List: live-patching
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/live-patching/2023/07/2274405
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/10/1543513/t.md

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:06:07 +0200
Alexander Lobakin [ref] wrote:

> > Just because you disable interrupts does not mean you are in interrupt
> > context.  
> 
> Ah okay, thanks! IOW, if we want to check in some code that we're
> certainly have interrupts enabled and are not in the interrupt context,
> we must always do
> 
> if (!(in_hardirq() || irqs_disabled()))
> 

Yeah, probably.

> , nothing more elegant / already existing / ...?

It's not a common check. What would you call that?

	irq_safe() ?

-- Steve
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