On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:49:36 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And yes, the mutex code will (with debug enabled) unconditionally enable
> > interrupts. ppc64 tends to oops when this happens, in the timer handler
> > (so it'll be intermittent...)
>
> I tend to say that any code that hard-enables interrupts is looking for
> trouble (mostly for that very reason of init stuff).
Usually. But it's 100% daft to be preserving local irq state in
mutex_lock().
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