From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.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 21:10:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710222110.34768.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022112110.105b8e11.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Monday 22 October 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, it's always been ugly that we use unsigned long for this rather than
> abstracting it properly.
>
> However I'd prefer that we have some really good reason for introducing
> irq_flags_t now. Simply so that I don't needlessly spend the next two
> years wrestling with literally thousands of convert-to-irq_flags_t patches
> and having to type "please use irq_flags_t here" in hundreds of patch
> reviews. (snivel, wimper)
On a related note, should we encourage the use of spin_lock() and
spin_lock_irq() instead of spin_lock_irqsave() where possible?
On some architectures, accessing the interrupt flag is a heavyweight
operation, especially when running under a hypervisor, so a number
of drivers could benefit from being converted to not save the flags
at all instead of just changing the type of the flags variable.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ 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
2007-10-22 18:21 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-22 18:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-22 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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
2007-10-25 18:33 ` Greg KH
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
2007-10-24 2:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 8:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
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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