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From: Steven Rostedt on 18 Nov 2009 20:30
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:58 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I do invoke smp_send_reschedule() with irqs disabled, which did arouse my
> suspicions of late. But this seems to bypass the smp_call_function()
> code that is most definitely illegal to invoke with irqs disabled,
> so no smoking gun. All that aside, if invoking smp_send_reschedule()
> with irqs disabled is in any way a bad idea, please let me know so I
> can rearrange the code appropriately.

I don't think you have anything to worry about here. If calling
smp_send_reschedule was bad with keeping interrupts disabled, then we
would have a lot of problems with the scheduler. That is called with the
rq lock held and with interrupts disabled.

-- Steve


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