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DateMon, 5 Aug 2002 22:48:38 -0700 (PDT)
FromLinus Torvalds <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.30
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> I am reading from this that we *should* be explicitly disabling
> preemption in interrupt handlers if we rely on the cpu number not
> changing underneath us, even if it's (a) currently unneccessary, and
> (b) arch-specific code.

But do_irq() already does that.

You mean _exception_ handlers. It's definitely not unnecessary. Exceptions 
can very much be preempted.

		Linus

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