linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] highres: warn on softirq handling an unsafe callback

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Message-ID: <20070305100702.GB9175@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:07:02 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] highres: warn on softirq handling an unsafe callback


* Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org> wrote:

> run_hrtimer_queue is called from a softirq context, and should never 
> run a callback that is classified as HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ.  A 
> bug in unrelated code had managed to trigger that bug, so let's add an 
> explicit warning to this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>

thanks.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

[suggestion for future submissions: please include the patch body as 
text, not as a MIME attachment - this makes it easier for upstream 
maintainers to process such mails.]

	Ingo
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