Re: [patch, -rc5-mm1] locking validator: special rule: 3c59x.c disable_irq()

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* Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:09 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Subject: locking validator: special rule: 3c59x.c disable_irq()
> > From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > 
> > 3c59x.c's vortex_timer() function knows that vp->lock can only be used
> > by an irq context that it disabled - and can hence take the vp->lock
> > without disabling hardirqs. Teach lockdep about this.
> 
> Ingo,
> 
> Did you update your
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-combo-2.6.17-rc5-mm1.patch
> or did I miss the patch to add the disable_irq_lockdep function?

i've updated it now, please check it out. (i sent the generic 
disable_irq_lockdep() bits to lkml separately but forgot to Cc: you)

	Ingo
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