Re: [GIT PULL] last minute percpu fix for v3.15-rc8

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Jun 04 2014 - 14:28:17 EST


On Wed, 4 Jun 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:

>
> Given that percpu operations can be performed on any allocated percpu
> area, it's a bit difficult to achieve tho. The only way I can think
> of is percpu allocator creating lockdep key for all the allocated
> offsets which isn't too enticing. :(

Hmmm.. Or an annotation for a percpu variable saying that its being used
from an interrupt context.

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