Re: lockdep oddity

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Sep 06 2006 - 03:45:06 EST


On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:20:43 +0200
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm also wondering why the profile
> patch contains this:
>
> + if (ret)
> + likeliness->count[1]++;
> + else
> + likeliness->count[0]++;
>
> This isn't smp safe. Is that on purpose or a bug?

Purposeful. This is called from all contexts, including NMI.
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