From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752279Ab1I0JOg (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:14:36 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:35852 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751142Ab1I0JOf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:14:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] spinlock: rm duplicated preempt en/disable for bottom half From: Peter Zijlstra To: Bob Liu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, joe@perches.com, tglx@linutronix.de Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:13:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1317110185-9219-1-git-send-email-lliubbo@gmail.com> References: <1317110185-9219-1-git-send-email-lliubbo@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1317114837.15383.1.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:56 +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > local_bh_en/disable() has already deal with en/disable preempt, so rm the > dumplicated one from spinlock_api_up/smp.h head file. I bet you haven't tried booting this.. you just broke stuff like: spin_lock_bh(&foo); /* do crap */ spin_unlock(&foo); /* do some other crap */ local_bh_enable(); And yes that does happen.