# Re: BUG or not? GFP\_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.

- From: David S. Miller \<hidden\>
- Date: 2003-03-27 14:05:19 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2003/03/537773
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2003/03/537766/t.md

```text
   From: Trond Myklebust [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.
```