in_interrupt() is true for a variety of things including bottomhalf disabled regions. Deducing hard interrupt context from it is dubious at best. Use in_irq() which is true if called in hard interrupt context. Otherwise calling irq_exit() would do more harm than good. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c index 7462a7911002..1589467e7528 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ common_shutdown_1(void *generic_ptr) #ifdef CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE /* If we've gotten here after SysRq-b, leave interrupt context before taking over the console. */ - if (in_interrupt()) + if (in_irq()) irq_exit(); /* This has the effect of resetting the VGA video origin. */ console_lock();
