On 2019-02-15, Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> wrote:
>>> void prb_lock(struct prb_cpulock *cpu_lock)
>>> {
>>>     unsigned int flags;
>>>     int cpu;
>> 
>> I added an explicit preempt_disable here:
>> 
>>         cpu = get_cpu();
>
> It is superfluous. Preemption is not possible when interrupts
> are disabled.

Interrupts are not necessarily disabled here. They get disabled later if
the lock needs to be taken (i.e. we are not nested).

John Ogness

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