Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:55:41 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > Could we add a debug option that warned if spin_lock_irq is > > executed with IRQs turned off already? > > Seems reasonable but perhaps arch-specific? > > Also, I think someone (akpm?) mentioned an effort had been made before, > and run into some problems. I don't have details...
I already posted a patch in this thread that does exactly that (and warn about spin_unlock_irq with IRQs enabled), see my earlier reply. The patch works fine, but my feeling is that it belongs into lockdep instead.
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