Re: [PATCH 1/4] lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation

[Nick Bowler]

On 2011-02-03 16:35 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing
> > softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs
> > disabled.
> > 
> > Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing
> > softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from
> > happending without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Nick, can you please test ?

Yes, this patch seems to solve the issue.

Thanks,
-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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