Re: [PATCH v5 12/18] zsmalloc: make zspage lock preemptible

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (25/02/13 01:31), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > >  Hmm I know I may have been the one suggesting this, but do we actually
> > > 
> > >  need it? We disable preemption explicitly anyway before holding the
> > > 
> > >  lock.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is just to make sure that the precondition for
> > 
> > "writer is always atomic" is satisfied. But I can drop it.
> 
> Right, but why do we care?

Oh, not that we care, just wanted extra smoke-detectors.  It's gone now.