try_to_freeze() called with IRQs disabled on ARM

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Thu Aug 25 08:17:10 EDT 2011


Hello, Russell.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:14:16PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> was introduced, every other architecture should have been updated for
> that change...  So this call in the ARM signal handling code to
> try_to_freeze() should just be deleted as it should've been done five
> years ago.

I agree.  I don't think it's necessary there, so for now, let's just
delete that call, but get_signal_to_deliver() expects to be called
with IRQ enabled so it would still be a good idea to turn on/off IRQs
explicitly around it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun



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