Yes, that's what I meant.
> Maybe the warning should be changed to
>
> Warning, kernel is mixing metaphors. "It's not rocket surgery".
>
> to make it clear why it's a bad idea.
Oh yes, that's *much* clearer!
I am reading from this that we *should* be explicitly disabling
preemption in interrupt handlers if we rely on the cpu number not
changing underneath us, even if it's (a) currently unneccessary, and
(b) arch-specific code.
Yes?
Rusty.
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