Invalid locking pattern in Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst?

[Sverdlin, Alexander]

Dear documentation maintainers,

the latest version of locking.rst contains the following (since 2005):

"Manfred Spraul points out that you can still do this, even if the data
is very occasionally accessed in user context or softirqs/tasklets. The
irq handler doesn't use a lock, and all other accesses are done as so::

        spin_lock(&lock);
        disable_irq(irq);
"

Isn't it "sleeping in atomic" actually because of the sleeping
disable_irq()?

-- 
Alexander Sverdlin
Siemens AG
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