Re: [PATCH] usbhid: Fix lockdep unannotated irqs-off warning

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:24:12 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > So, if Clang is producing wrong X86 code here, is it possible to turn 
> > interrupts on/off manually? But, hmm that affects other places as well 
> > in the Linux sources, so.  
> 
> This issue needs to be handled in the compiler.
> 

Exactly. The compiler may get away with this in userspace (maybe), but
for the kernel, it is definitely a show stopper. Especially if it knows
that an asm() may be called.

-- Steve