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SubjectRe: use of preempt_count instead of in_atomic() at leds-gpio.c
I wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ./drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_transactions.c
>>
>> Possibly buggy: deadlockable
>
> That's in hpsb_get_tlabel(), an exported symbol of the ieee1394 core.
>
> The in_atomic() there didn't cause problems yet and is unlikely to do so
> in the future, because there are no plans for substantial changes to the
> whole drivers/ieee1394/ anymore (because of drivers/firewire/).
>
> Nevertheless I shall look into replacing the in_atomic() by in_softirq()
> or something like that.

Or extend the API to have separate calls for callers which can sleep and
callers which can't. But that may be thwarted by deep call chains.

> Touching this legacy code is dangerous though.
--
Stefan Richter
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