Re: [git pull] vfs.git pile 3 - dcache

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 19:16:12 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I wonder if raw_preempt_disable() would be another name to use?  
> 
> NO!
> 
> The point is that normal non-RT code does *not* disable preemption at
> all, because it is already disabled thanks to the earlier spinlock.
> 
> So we definitely do *not* want to call this "raw_preempt_disable()",
> because it's actually not supposed to normally disable anything at
> all. Only for RT, where the spinlock code doesn't do it.

Yeah, I'm just brainstorming ideas on what we could use to make that name a
little shorter, and I'm not coming up with much.

OK, I'm becoming colorblind with this shed.

-- Steve