Re: [PATCH v2] Make hard_irq_disable() actually hard-disable interrupts

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:51 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> At present, hard_irq_disable() does nothing on powerpc because of
> this code in include/linux/interrupt.h:
> 
> #ifndef hard_irq_disable
> #define hard_irq_disable()      do { } while(0)
> #endif
> 
> So we need to make our hard_irq_disable be a macro.
> 
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Add:

CC: <stable@kernel.org> [v3.4]

Before sending to Linus so it hits stable automagically.

Cheers,
Ben.

> --
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> index c9aac24..32b394f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> @@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ static inline void hard_irq_disable(void)
>  	get_paca()->irq_happened |= PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;
>  }
>  
> +/* include/linux/interrupt.h needs hard_irq_disable to be a macro */
> +#define hard_irq_disable	hard_irq_disable
> +
>  /*
>   * This is called by asynchronous interrupts to conditionally
>   * re-enable hard interrupts when soft-disabled after having