Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: use raw spinlocks for trace_vprintk

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> The above disable is exactly for NMIs. We should have preemption disabled 
> here, and we disable this per cpu. If an NMI comes in after this point, it 
> will exit the function without taking the lock. If it runs on another CPU, 
> we really don't care. That's what NMIs are for ;-)

I have not had my first cup of coffee this morning yet. I meant to say:

  That's what spinlocks are for ;-)


Bah!

-- Steve

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