Re: Linux 6.3-rc2
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Mar 13 2023 - 19:17:30 EST
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> So the hardirq interrupted some code that has softirqs disabled (or
> servicing) from the preempt mask POV but not from lockdep POV.
.. but those are two different counters, so isn't that *always* racy?
IOW, one counter being updated before the other...
IOW, isn't this *why* that check isn't supposed to ever trigger at all
from hard-irq context?
Linus