linux-kernel - Re: Can current macro be accessed from interrupt context?

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Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:45:38 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Leonidas ." <leonidas137@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can current macro be accessed from interrupt context?

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:10:49 -0700
"Leonidas ." <leonidas137@...il.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Going through UTLK, it says that current macro makes sense only in
> case of process context,
> in case of interrupt context it is invalid.
> 
> But current would still be pointing to interrupted process right? The
> pointer would still be valid?
> Can I safely assume that whether or not interrupt handlers are
> executing on separate stacks or
> interrupted threads stack, current macro can be accessed from
> interrupt context?

not for interrupt threads, and that's where things are moving to.

for interrupt stacks you ought to be fine (current is just a pointer on
the stack, and last I looked we copied that pointer for each interrupt
to the irq stack)

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