Re: submit_bh leaves interrupts on upon return

[Jens Axboe]

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

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