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SubjectRe: mmotm 2009-06-30-12-50 uploaded
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On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:26 PDT, Andrew Morton said:

> apart from having a crappy title, linux-next's
>
> : commit f29876421ec11f7d66f3d982219ef3af9bcccf32
> : Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> : AuthorDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000
> : Commit: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> : CommitDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000
> :
> : misc:work_on_cpu-acpi
> :
>
> causes get_throttling() to newly be called from an IPI, and lockdep doesn't
> like irq-disabled interrupt handlers doing local_irq_enable().
>
>
> If we rely upon these functions only ever being called from
> smp_call_function_single(), and if smp_call_function_single() is
> correctly implemented, we should be able to do this:

I'll take a leap of faith on the "correctly implemented" part. However,
I admit I'm probably going to wait till Len or somebody agrees on the
"only calledf from function_single()" part being correct before test-driving
the patch...
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