On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm very hesitant to use irq_enter for this, though.  I think we want
>> just the irq_count part.
>
> Oh, I agree. I mentioned irq_enter/exit() just as the place the
> preempt count increment normally happens. I have nothing against doing
> it manually for these things that really aren't normal interrupts.
>

It may need to be considerably more complicated to keep RCU happy,
though.  In fact, I think that this code is already wrong.

I'll write something and cc Paul to get some feedback.

--Andy
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