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SubjectRe: [PATCH 23/32] softirq: Remove stale comment
On 2019-02-12 18:14:14 [+0100], Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> __local_bh_disable_ip() is neither for strict internal use nor does it
> require the caller to disable hardirqs. Probaby a celebration for ancient

Probaby

> behaviour.

I think the point was to override the IP for the tracer. So everyone
else used local_bh_disable() and was recorded as the caller except for
softirq.c internal usage where __do_softirq() did also
"local_bh_disable()" but recorded its caller (instead recording
__do_softirq()).

Sebastian

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