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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations
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On Monday 22 October 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It's almost always a bug to do spin_lock_irq() when local interrupts are
> disabled.  However iirc when we've tried to add runtime debugging to catch
> that, it triggered false-positives which made the idea unworkable.  I forget
> where.

I tried this as well a few years ago, and I think I hit a few places in
the early initialization, but nothing unfixable.

> However what we could do is to add a new
> spin_lock_irq_tell_me_if_i_goofed() which would perform that runtime check.

How about the opposite? We could have a raw_spin_lock_irq() in places where
there are valid uses of spin_lock_irq() with irqs disabled and the same
for spin_unlock_irq with interrupts already enabled.

I can try to come up with a new implementation, including some rate-limiting,
which I think my first attempt was missing.

Arnd <><
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