Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors

[Keith Owens]

"Paul E. McKenney" (on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:51:15 -0800) wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:19:01PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>> OK, I have thought about it and ...
>> 
>>   notifier_call_chain_lockfree() must be called with preempt disabled.
>> 
>Fair enough!  A comment, perhaps?  In a former life I would have also
>demanded debug code to verify that preemption/interrupts/whatever were
>actually disabled, given the very subtle nature of any resulting bugs...

Comment - OK.  Debug code is not required, the reference to
smp_processor_id() already does all the debug checks that
notifier_call_chain_lockfree() needs.  CONFIG_PREEMPT_DEBUG is your
friend.

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