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SubjectRe: [PATCH] lockdep: Make lockstats counting per cpu
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On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 07:52 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 03:22 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > We can't use irqsafe per cpu counters for that as
> > these stats might be also written from NMI path, and irqsafe per
> > cpu counters are not NMI safe, but local_t operations are.
> >
> lockdep shouldn't do NMI, nmi_enter() has an explicit lockdep_off().

Also, more importantly, you simply should never use locks in NMI context
to begin with ;-)



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