[PATCH net-next 00/15] in_interrupt() cleanup, part 2
Jakub Kicinski
kuba at kernel.org
Sat Oct 31 05:29:00 AEDT 2020
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:54:39 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Folks,
>
> in the discussion about preempt count consistency across kernel configurations:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914204209.256266093@linutronix.de/
>
> Linus clearly requested that code in drivers and libraries which changes
> behaviour based on execution context should either be split up so that
> e.g. task context invocations and BH invocations have different interfaces
> or if that's not possible the context information has to be provided by the
> caller which knows in which context it is executing.
>
> This includes conditional locking, allocation mode (GFP_*) decisions and
> avoidance of code paths which might sleep.
>
> In the long run, usage of 'preemptible, in_*irq etc.' should be banned from
> driver code completely.
>
> This is part two addressing remaining drivers except for orinoco-usb.
Freescale folks - can I get an ack for merging the last three patches
into net-next?
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