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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: + down_write-preserve-local-irqs.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:54:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166612063.3365.1367.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612201038.kBKAcN4L026466@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 02:38 -0800, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> The patch titled
>      down_write(): preserve local irqs
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      down_write-preserve-local-irqs.patch
> 
> See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> out what to do about this
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: down_write(): preserve local irqs

excuse me? Am I missing something here?

down_write() is a sleeping function, right? what business does it have
to be *ever* called with irqs off?

if the answer is "none whatsoever", what good is saving irq state then?




       reply	other threads:[~2006-12-20 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200612201038.kBKAcN4L026466@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-12-20 10:54 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-20 11:02   ` Andrew Morton

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