execute_in_process_context() is supposed to produce us a context whenever the local context isn't available, and that's supposed to include when interrupts are disabled as in spin_lock_irqsave(). So let me ask this another way: have you seen this deadlock (which would mean we have a bug in execute_process_context())? James
I havn't seen this dead lock but in_interrupt() do not check whether the interrupts are disabled. Please refer to the definition of in_interrupt(). #define irq_count() (preempt_count() & (HARDIRQ_MASK | SOFTIRQ_MASK\ | NMI_MASK)) #define in_interrupt() (irq_count()) Jason
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