linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/locking: make __down

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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 23:36:47 +0900
From:   Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, will@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/locking: make __down_common use flags previously
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 09:09:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Yes, this is intentional, because if we get into __down_common() we have to 
> schedule, so we have to enable interrupts.

when I sent this patch I thought we have to match XXXX_irqsave with
XXXX_irqrestore, but that was my misunderstanding. I'm sorry for sending
patch saying that it's wrong without explicit evidence.

now I know it's wrong so I won't do that again.

thanks,
Hyeonggon