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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 06:52:23 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs.git pile 3 - dcache On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 19:16:12 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > I wonder if raw_preempt_disable() would be another name to use? > > NO! > > The point is that normal non-RT code does *not* disable preemption at > all, because it is already disabled thanks to the earlier spinlock. > > So we definitely do *not* want to call this "raw_preempt_disable()", > because it's actually not supposed to normally disable anything at > all. Only for RT, where the spinlock code doesn't do it. Yeah, I'm just brainstorming ideas on what we could use to make that name a little shorter, and I'm not coming up with much. OK, I'm becoming colorblind with this shed. -- Steve
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