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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] arm: Unprotected access to irq_desc field?
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Gilles,
> 
> I happened to come across rthal_mark_irq_disabled/enabled on arm. On
> first glance, it looks like these helpers manipulate irq_desc::status
> non-atomically, i.e. without holding irq_desc::lock. Isn't this fragile?

I have no idea. How do the other architectures do? As far as I know,
this code has been copied from there.


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                                                                Gilles.