Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263403AbTHWRAI (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:00:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263230AbTHWQ7V (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:59:21 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:54192 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263059AbTHWP4G (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:56:06 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:56:04 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: TeJun Huh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) Message-Id: <20030823175604.1ddb119d.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030823151315.GA6781@atj.dyndns.org> References: <20030823025448.GA32547@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823040931.GA3872@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823052633.GA4307@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823122813.0c90e241.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030823151315.GA6781@atj.dyndns.org> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 21 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:13:15 +0900 TeJun Huh wrote: > Hello, Stephan. > > The race conditions I'm mentioning in this thread are not likely to > cause real troubles. The first one does not make any difference on > x86, and AFAIK bh isn't used extensively anymore so the second one > isn't very relevant either. Only the race condition mentioned in the > other thread is of relvance if there is any :-(. Are you sure? bh is used in fs subtree to my knowledge ... Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/