Re: [patch] rt: res_counter fix, v2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:28 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > [   45.228589] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffff8025449d>] copy_process+0x68d/0x1500
> > > [   45.228602] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffffff8025449d>] copy_process+0x68d/0x1500
> > 
> > 
> > The reason for which I wanted to send an irqsoff trace is that the above lines are false.
> 
> copy_process() has:
> 
> #endif
> 	p->hardirq_enable_ip = 0;
> 	p->hardirq_enable_event = 0;
> 	p->hardirq_disable_ip = _THIS_IP_;
> 	p->hardirq_disable_event = 0;
> 	p->softirqs_enabled = 1;
> 	p->softirq_enable_ip = _THIS_IP_;
> 	p->softirq_enable_event = 0;
> 	p->softirq_disable_ip = 0;
> 	p->softirq_disable_event = 0;
> 	p->hardirq_context = 0;
> 	p->softirq_context = 0;
> #endif
> 
> the sequence count of 0 basically tells you it hasn't been set yet.

maybe we should initialize it to -1 to make this more apparent?

	Ingo
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