Search Linux Wireless

[PATCH net-next 00/15] in_interrupt() cleanup, part 2

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Folks,

in the discussion about preempt count consistency across 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.

In the long run, usage of 'preemptible, in_*irq etc.' should be banned from
driver code completely.

This is part two addressing remaining drivers except for orinoco-usb.

Sebastian




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Wireless Regulations]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux