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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:39:46 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Short question regarding generic_make_request()
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On Sun, Feb 03 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
> > Can generic_make_request() be called from interrupt level (or tasklet)
> > ?
> 
> no.

In theory, READA from interrupt context would be ok, though. That
doesn't work in real-life due to the non flag saving spin locking in
__make_request.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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