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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071022152912.GA841@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071021093042.GA2144@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:30:42PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 			irq_flags_t
> 	
> New type for use with spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.

Talking about it, why did we ever require this to be a long anyway?  I could
get away with a single bit for MIPS; the rest of this variable is pure
bloat.  An abstract datatype could help finally fix this.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20 23:55 [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-21  0:54 ` Al Viro
2007-10-21  9:30   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-22 15:29     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-10-22 18:21       ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-22 18:50         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-22 19:10         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-22 19:47           ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-22 19:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-22 20:02               ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-22 21:34                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-22 21:46                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-23  1:06                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-23  1:28                       ` USB HCD: avoid duplicate local_irq_disable() Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-23  4:01                         ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2007-10-23  4:01                           ` Alan Stern
2007-10-25 18:33                           ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 19:14                             ` Alan Stern
2007-10-27 19:14                               ` Alan Stern
2007-10-22 20:47               ` [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations Jeff Garzik
2007-10-23  0:21                 ` David Miller
2007-10-23  3:33                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-23  3:33                   ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-24  2:11                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24  8:55                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-25 15:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-27 20:24   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-27 20:32     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-28  1:24     ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-27 19:20 ` Roman Zippel
2007-10-27 20:14   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-10-27 21:07     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 21:22     ` Roman Zippel

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