Re: [patch] irqlock patch -G3. [was Re: odd memory corruption

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:37:20 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> [...] It'll be untrivial to fix all this, but this very subtle change to
> the locking semantics with CONFIG_PREEMPT is quite nasty.

well, preempt is different, lets face it. I'm very strongly against making
the irq-on path check for preemption ...

Ingo

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