Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: only call smp_processor_id in non-preempt cases

[Don Zickus]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > There are some paths that walk the die_chain with preemption on.
> 
> What are those codepaths? At minimum it's worth documenting them.

Well the one that caused the bug was do_general_protection which walks the
die_chain with DIE_GPF.

I can document them, though it might be time consuming to audit them and
hope they don't change.  I guess my bigger question is, is it expected
that anyone who calls the die_chain to have preemption disabled?  If not,
then does it matter if we document it?

Cheers,
Don
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