Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

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On Tue, 6 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> down(), down_interruptible() and down_try() should use spin_lock_irq(), not
> irqsave.

down_trylock() is used in atomic code. See for example kernel/printk.c. So 
no, that one needs to be irqsafe.

		Linus
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