On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 16:55 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I am going take this into -RT tree for now until we have different > solution. Have you considered to delete the WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled()) statement? I think that check duplicates functionality that already exists in lockdep since lockdep is already able to detect spinlock use inconsistencies. Bart.