On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's almost always a bug to do spin_lock_irq() when local interrupts are > > disabled. Â However iirc when we've tried to add runtime debugging to catch > > that, it triggered false-positives which made the idea unworkable. Â I > > forget > > where. > > I tried this as well a few years ago, and I think I hit a few places in > the early initialization, but nothing unfixable.
Hmm, lockdep checks this already. If it does not catch it, we need to fix it. tglx