On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> - for raw spinlocks i've reintroduced raw_local_irq primitives again.
> This helped get rid of some grossness in sched.c, and the raw
> spinlocks disable preemption anyway. It's also safer to just assume
> that if a raw spinlock is used together with the IRQ flag that the
> real IRQ flag has to be disabled.
I don't know about this one .. That grossness was there so people aren't
able to easily add new disable sections.
Could we add a new raw_raw_spinlock_t that really disable interrupt , then
investigate each one . There are really only two that need it, runqueue
lock , and the irq descriptor lock . If you add it back for all raw types
you just add back more un-needed disable sections. The only way a raw lock
needs to disable interrupts is if it's possible to enter that region from
interrupt context .
Daniel
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