From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/62] net: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:41:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908134108.GC2310@zhy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109072000290.2723@ionos>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:03:14PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, David Miller wrote:
>
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:32:39 +0200 (CEST)
> >
> > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, David Miller wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
> > >> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 16:10:42 +0800
> > >>
> > >> > This flag is a NOOP and can be removed now.
> > >> >
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
> > >>
> > >> I have the same concerns here as I had for the sparc case.
> > >>
> > >> Some of these drivers might be using IRQF_DISABLED to make sure the
> > >> IRQ cannot be delivered until it is explicitly enabled via an
> > >> enable_irq() call.
> > >>
> > >> How is that being accomodated now?
> > >
> > > Again IRQF_DISABLED never ever had that functionality.
> >
> > My bad.
> >
> > But what if these interrupts want interrupts disabled during their
> > interrupt handler, for other reasons?
>
> We run ALL interrupt handlers with irqs disabled always.
>
> > This has the potential to break tons of stuff, especially on the
> > really old chips which almost no developers have any more but some
> > user might try to use.
>
> It won't. We removed IRQF_DISABLED from kernel/irq/* long ago
Yeah, and this is why we say it's a NOOP now :)
Thanks,
Yong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1315383059-3673-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 17/62] powerpc: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED Yong Zhang
2011-09-08 16:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 45/62] net: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 17:13 ` David Miller
2011-09-07 17:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 17:52 ` David Miller
2011-09-07 18:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-08 13:41 ` Yong Zhang [this message]
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 51/62] powerpc/ps3: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 17:04 ` Geoff Levand
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 54/62] TTY: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-09 9:49 ` Tobias Klauser
2011-09-22 23:04 ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 23:08 ` Greg KH
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 55/62] USB: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 56/62] video: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:10 ` [PATCH 60/62] sound: " Yong Zhang
2011-09-07 8:36 ` Péter Ujfalusi
2011-09-07 17:12 ` Mark Brown
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