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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:59:10 +0530
From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: smp_call_function & BH handlers
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:28:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> 
> > Why is it ok to call smp_call_function from bottom half handlers? [...]
> 
> which part of the kernel is calling smp_call_function() from bh contexts?
> 
> 	Ingo

I am working with Dipankar on Read-Copy Update, and experimenting with
smp_call_function(). We believed the comments for this routine and faced
this problem. That's why this question came. I have not yet searched 
kernel sources for such places hence not sure whether there are really such
places or not. 

Maneesh

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Maneesh Soni
IBM Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com
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