linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:15:10 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

> hm, why should it be atomic wrt. irqs? There's nothing that keeps gcc 

It isn't - we've got tty layer traces of serial counts going wrong that
rely on precisely that assumption.

Alan
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