Re: lockdep and threaded IRQs (was: ...)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 02 2009 - 16:31:05 EST


On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:16:57 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > we should simply always disable interrupts for
> > > interrupt handlers.
> >
> > That would be why you have refused to fix the bug
> > in lockdep, whereby it forcibly enables that flag?
> >
> > I've been wondering for some months now why you've
> > left that bug unfixed.
>
> Because running irq handlers with irqs enabled it plain silly.

Do we get to revert irqstacks?
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