On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> I do agree that we should obviously not run bottom halves with
> interrupts disabled
>
> Ok, so can we add a:
>
> if (irqs_disabled())
> BUG();
>
> check to do_softirq()?
I'd suggest making it a counting warning (with a static counter per
local-bh-enable macro expansion) and adding it to local_bh_enable() -
otherwise it will only BUG() when the (potentially rare) condition
happens - instead of always giving a nice backtrace of exact problem
spots.
Linus
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