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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c microcleanup

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Andrey Panin wrote:
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> attached patch (2.5.64) contains small cleanup of RCU code:
> - move smp_processor_id() outside of irq disabled region in call_rcu();

That looks wrong, and is likely to break with preemption, since the caller
could potentially be moved to another CPU between the smp_processor_id()
and the irq disable.

Linus

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