Re: [announce, patch, RFC] "big IRQ lock" removal, IRQ cleanups.

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 13:04:42 EST


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, george anzinger wrote:

> But schedule and signal code does return with interrupts enabled, so a
> cli is still needed here. Also at least some of the trap code returns
> with interrupts enabled.

the change only affects the ret_from_intr path, which is IRQ-only. The
signal and schedule path is still disabling interrupts.

        Ingo

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