On Sun, 2020-09-27 at 21:48 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Folks, > > in the discussion about preempt count consistency accross kernel configurations: > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914204209.256266093@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Linus clearly requested that code in drivers and libraries which changes > behaviour based on execution context should either be split up so that > e.g. task context invocations and BH invocations have different interfaces > or if that's not possible the context information has to be provided by the > caller which knows in which context it is executing. > > This includes conditional locking, allocation mode (GFP_*) decisions and > avoidance of code paths which might sleep. Are these patches intended to be applied to Linus' tree before v5.9 is released? This patchset will cause conflicts against -next. For instance, in patch 34, RT_TRACE has already been removed in -next.