Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [ACPI] inappropriate use of in_atomic() | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:26:13 +1100 |
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On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 01:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz> wrote: > > > > This may be the cause of > > > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4150 > > Looks that way, yes.
Note that it would be interesting to fix that (I mean the reliability of is_atomic() or an alternative). I agree it's quite bad to rely on that in practice, but there are a few corner cases where it's useful (like oops handling in fbdev's etc...)
Ben.
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