* Steven Rostedt | 2015-03-19 12:26:11 [-0400]:
>On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:17:09 +0100
>Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> (aw crap, let's go shopping)... so why is the one in timer.c ok?
>
>It's not. Sebastian, you said there were no other cases of rt_mutexes
>being taken in hard irq context. Looks like timer.c has one.
If you refer to switch_timer_base() then this one is not taken in
hard-irq context. The callchain is:
lock_timer_base() (with spin_lock_irqsave(&base->lock, *flags) which
makes it a sleeping lock or lockdep would scream)
-> switch_timer_base()
-> spin_trylock() (not in hardirq conteyt)
>So perhaps the real fix is to get that special case of ownership in
>hard interrupt context?
I'm really not sure we want to keep doing this.
>
>-- Steve
Sebastian
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