Re: [PATCH RT 2/4] Revert "timers: do not raise softirq unconditionally"

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Mar 19 2015 - 12:26:19 EST


On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:17:09 +0100
Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> (aw crap, let's go shopping)... so why is the one in timer.c ok?

It's not. Sebastian, you said there were no other cases of rt_mutexes
being taken in hard irq context. Looks like timer.c has one.

So perhaps the real fix is to get that special case of ownership in
hard interrupt context?

-- Steve

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