On Tue 21-05-19 14:43:38, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2019, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > In some special cases we must not block, but there's not a > > spinlock, preempt-off, irqs-off or similar critical section already > > that arms the might_sleep() debug checks. Add a non_block_start/end() > > pair to annotate these. > > Just putting preempt on/off around these is not sufficient? It is not a critical section. It is a _debugging_ facility to help discover blocking contexts. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
