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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, matthew@wil.cx,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ralf@linux-mips.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB HCD: avoid duplicate local_irq_disable()
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:33:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025183352.GB2176@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0710222359290.13902-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:01:37AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > usb_hcd_flush_endpoint() has a retry loop that starts with a spin_lock_irq(),
> > but only gives up the spinlock, not the irq_disable before jumping to the
> > rescan label.
> > 
> > Split the spin_lock_irq into the retryable part and the local_irq_disable()
> > that is only done once as a micro-optimization and slight cleanup.
> 
> I agree with your sentiment, but it would be better to solve this 
> problem without using local_irq_disable().  The patch below does this.
> 
> ---
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Alan, is this something you want added to the tree and in before 2.6.24
is out?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 18:42 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
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 [this message]
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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