Re: down_trylock doesn't preserve irqstate

From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.epfl.ch)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 17:28:59 EST

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David S. Miller wrote:
> If it sleeps, no it does not preserve global cli/sti on SMP. It
> preserves local cpu interrupt state only.

Sigh ...

> I really would like to see global cli removed from all spots where it
> is not absolutely necessary (ATM is networking, so you have no excuse
> here :-).

And I was already afraid I might die of boredom next week ... :)

- Werner

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