On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:28:52 +0200
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 May 2006 23:24:52 +0200
> > Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > introduce local_irq_enable_in_hardirq() API. It is currently
> > > aliased to local_irq_enable(), hence has no functional effects.
> > >
> > > This API will be used by lockdep, but even without lockdep
> > > this will better document places in the kernel where a hardirq
> > > context enables hardirqs.
> >
> > If we expect people to use this then we'd best whack a comment over
> > it.
>
> ok, i've improved the comment in trace_irqflags.h.
>
> > Also, trace_irqflags.h doesn't seem an appropriate place for it to
> > live.
>
> seems like the most practical place for it. Previously we had no central
> include file for irq-flags APIs (they used to be included from
> asm/system.h and other random per-arch places) - trace_irqflags.h has
> become the central file now. Should i rename it to irqflags.h perhaps,
> to not tie it to tracing? We have some deprecated irq-flags ops in
> interrupt.h, maybe this all belongs there. (although i think it's
> cleaner to have linux/include/irqflags.h and include it from
> interrupt.h)
>
Yes, irqflags.h is nice.
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