On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:38 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >> Introducing this fallback will make any usage from irq disabled context > >> deadlock prone. > >> > >> I rather like the current interface. > >> > > > > Hmm good point, I'll back that bit out again. > > > > But then you need to fix all callers to handle errors. Sure. > Perhaps we need a new flag for failable async IPIs (or better, API). > I'm pretty sure no one uses s_c_f_s() from irq disabled context on x86, > since it will WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()). Yeah, no current users, but that doesn't say I don't want to add new ones ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
