On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> BTW: CPU flags should always be saved and restored in the same function
> - it's not correct to pass the flags to another function and allow that
> function to restore them. Breaks on SPARC, apparently. Does Rusty's
> doc cover this??
it maybe obvious (definitely is to most) but it may still be worth
mentioning that 'passing' flags to inline'd functions is ok, otherwise
people would get very confused when they look at
__schedule_tail()/reschedule_idle() interaction.
Regards,
Tigran
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