From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:51:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20030129.015134.19663914.davem@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Linus rollup From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030129095949.A24161@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20030128220729.1f61edfe.akpm@digeo.com> <20030129095949.A24161@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: akpm@digeo.com, ak@muc.de, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, anton@samba.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: /* This function must be called with interrupts disabled which hasn't been true for some time, and is even less true now that local IRQs don't get disabled. Does this matter... for UP? I disable local IRQs during gettimeofday() on sparc. These locks definitely need to be taken with IRQs disabled. Why isn't x86 doing that? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/