Re: [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disable

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:25 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Add a call to hard_irq_disable() to stop_machine so that we make sure
> IRQs are really disabled and not only lazy-disabled on archs like
> powerpc as some users of stop_machine() may rely on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Rusty.


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  - From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

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