Re: [patch, -rc5-mm1] locking validator: special rule: 8390.c disable_irq()

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:02 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> untested on 8390 hardware, but ought to solve the lockdep false 
> positive.
> 
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> Subject: locking validator: special rule: 8390.c disable_irq()
> From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> 
> 8390.c knows that ei_local->page_lock can only be used by an irq
> context that it disabled -

btw I think this is no longer correct with the irq polling stuff Alan
added to the kernel recently...

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