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Mon Sep 24 06:17:10 EST 2007


differentiate interrupts and thus possibly allow a less restrictive
locking policy.

> I'm copying a few people to solicit opinions on how best to deal with
> this.  I think it's desirable to keep the property of letting us
> profile critical sections in the kernel wherever possible. So we would
> need to add hard_irq_disable/enable calls to the generic code, but want to
> check with you guys first.   
> 
I am open to suggestions. If we can enable monitoring in critical sections
and still avoid races and dealocks, at least on powerpc, then I'll be happy
to allow this.

Thanks.

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-Stephane


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