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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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