On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:51:55 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does this mean that there is a better approach that Joel's suggestion? > I believe he would end up with something like this: > > WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU) && !in_irq()); > > It would be nice if there is something like this: > > lockdep_assert_in_irq_handler(); > > But I haven't seen this. (Not that I have looked particularly hard for > such a thing, mind you!) That would be trivial to implement: #define lockdep_assert_in_irq() do { WARN_ON(debug_locks && !current->hardirq_context); } while (0) -- Steve