On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:08:01PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Dong Aisheng wrote: > > Then it may need introduce a lot changes and increase many new core APIs. > > Is that a problem? > > No. That's all better than each driver having broken workarounds. It's a > common problem so it wants to be addressed at the core level. There you have a > central point to do this and you can still catch abusers which call stuff from > the wrong context. The hacks in the drivers don't allow that because they look > at the context, i.e. irq disabled, instead of checking the system state. >
Okay, thanks. If you wouldn't mind i could send out a patch based on your suggestion for further discussion. Thanks Regards Dong Aisheng > Thanks, > > tglx
