linux-next: PowerPC WARN_ON_ONCE() after merge of the final tree (tip related)
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Fri Apr 16 20:38:43 EST 2010
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 19:15 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > that looks rather ugly. Why not do a raw:
> >
> > this_cpu_inc(lockdep_stats.redundant_hardirqs_on);
> >
> > which basically open-codes debug_atomic_inc(), but without the warning?
>
>
> Because that would open a race against interrupts that might
> touch lockdep_stats.redundant_hardirqs_on too.
How so, its a pure per-cpu variable right? so either the increment
happens before the interrupts hits, or after, in either case there
should not be a race with interrupts.
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