Re: PATCH: EDAC - clean up atomic stuff

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 01:27:02 EST


ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> Hmm. Looking at the patch it is most definitely being called from
> process context.

Well if we retain KM_BOUNCE_READ then we'll need local_irq_save(). If
edac_mc_scrub_block() will alwyas be called from process context then we
can use KM_USER0 and leave interrupts enabled.

Alan, can you confirm please?

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