[PATCH 01/25] xor: assert that xor_blocks is not called from interrupt context
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Mar 3 08:00:50 PST 2026
On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 03:24:55PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > unsigned long *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4;
> >
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE(in_interrupt());
>
> Your changelog makes it sound like you want:
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task());
>
> But perhaps something like so:
>
> lockdep_assert_preempt_enabled();
>
> Would do? That ensures we are in preemptible context, which is much the
> same. That also ensures the cost of this assertion is only paid on debug
> kernels.
No idea honestly. The kernel FPU/vector helpers generally don't work
from irq context, and I want to assert that. Happy to do whatever
version works best for that.
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