Re: [PATCH] local_irq_disable removal

[Daniel Walker]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> one way to make it safe/reviewable is to runtime warn if 
> local_irq_disable() is called from a !preempt_count() section. But this 
> will uncover quite some code. There's some code in the VM, in the 
> buffer-cache, in the RCU code - etc. that uses per-CPU data structures 
> and assumes non-preemptability of local_irq_disable().


Are you talking about make those section preemptible? Or a safety problem
in the current method.

Daniel

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