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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:31:45 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, torvalds@transmeta.com,
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Subject: Re: 2.4.7 softirq incorrectness.
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:05:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> Rusty Russell writes:
>  > In message <20010723013416.B23517@athlon.random> you write:
>  > > What kernel are you looking at? There's no such code in 2.4.7, the only
>  > 
>  > Oh, so it's only a trap *waiting* to happen.  That's OK then!
>  ...
>  > Why not fix all the cases?  Why have this wierd secret rule that
>  > cpu_raise_softirq() should not be called with irqs disabled?
> 
> Why keep it secret?  I think Andrea is exactly right here, and we
> should just comment this restriction.  That's all.

there's not such restriction as far I can tell (see my previous email
for details).

Andrea
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