Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 14/22] 14: x86: uprobes exceptionnotifier for x86.

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Wed Jun 22 2011 - 13:04:37 EST


> Oleg, Roland, do you know why do_notify_resume() gets called with
> interrupts disabled on i386?

It was that way for a long time. My impression was that it was just not
bothering to reenable before do_signal->get_signal_to_deliver would shortly
disable (via spin_lock_irq) anyway. It's possible there was something more
to it, but I don't know of anything.


Thanks,
Roland
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