Re: in_irq_or_nmi() and RFC patch

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:12:23AM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:49:58 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:44:41PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > @@ -2481,7 +2481,11 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
> > >  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> > >  	int migratetype;
> > >  
> > > -	if (in_interrupt()) {
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Exclude (hard) IRQ and NMI context from using the pcplists.
> > > +	 * But allow softirq context, via disabling BH.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (in_irq() || irqs_disabled()) {  
> > 
> > Why do you need irqs_disabled() ? 
> 
> Because further down I call local_bh_enable(), which calls
> __local_bh_enable_ip() which triggers a warning during early boot on:
> 
>   WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled());
> 
> It looks like it is for supporting CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS.

Ah, no. Its because when you do things like:

	local_irq_disable();
	local_bh_enable();
	local_irq_enable();

you can loose a pending softirq.

Bugger.. that irqs_disabled() is something we could do without.

I'm thinking that when tglx finishes his soft irq disable patches for
x86 (same thing ppc also does) we can go revert all these patches.

Thomas, see:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301144845.783f8cad@xxxxxxxxxx

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