On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:47:26 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > apart from having a crappy title, linux-next's > > : commit f29876421ec11f7d66f3d982219ef3af9bcccf32 > : Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > : AuthorDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000 > : Commit: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > : CommitDate: Wed Jul 1 12:37:19 2009 +1000 > : > : misc:work_on_cpu-acpi > : > > causes get_throttling() to newly be called from an IPI, and lockdep doesn't > like irq-disabled interrupt handlers doing local_irq_enable(). > > > If we rely upon these functions only ever being called from > smp_call_function_single(), and if smp_call_function_single() is > correctly implemented, we should be able to do this: I'll take a leap of faith on the "correctly implemented" part. However, I admit I'm probably going to wait till Len or somebody agrees on the "only calledf from function_single()" part being correct before test-driving the patch...
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