linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine() now uses hard_irq

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Message-Id: <1178775234.7286.189.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 15:33:54 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disable

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:25 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Add a call to hard_irq_disable() to stop_machine so that we make sure
> IRQs are really disabled and not only lazy-disabled on archs like
> powerpc as some users of stop_machine() may rely on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.


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