Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.
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- David S. Miller <hidden>
- Date
- 2003-03-27 14:05:19
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- Trond Myklebust, 2003-03-27
From: Trond Myklebust [off-list ref]
Date: 27 Mar 2003 15:11:56 +0100
> IRQ disabling is meant to be stronger than softint disabling.
In that case, you'll need to have things like spin_lock_irqrestore()
call local_bh_enable() in order to run the pending softirqs. Is that
worth the trouble?
"trouble" is a weird word to use when the current behavior is
just wrong. :-)
My point is that it doesn't matter what the fix is, running
softints while hw IRQs are disabled must be fixed.