linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] target: Use WARNON_NON_RT(!irqs

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Message-ID: <1521822325.2535.5.camel@wdc.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:25:25 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] target: Use WARNON_NON_RT(!irqs_disabled())

On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 16:55 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I am going take this into -RT tree for now until we have different
> solution.

Have you considered to delete the WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled()) statement?
I think that check duplicates functionality that already exists in lockdep
since lockdep is already able to detect spinlock use inconsistencies.

Bart.