linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine() now uses hard_irq

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 15:25:59 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disable

Add a call to hard_irq_disable() to stop_machine so that we make sure
IRQs are really disabled and not only lazy-disabled on archs like
powerpc as some users of stop_machine() may rely on that.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

 kernel/stop_machine.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Index: linux-cell/kernel/stop_machine.c
===================================================================
--- linux-cell.orig/kernel/stop_machine.c	2007-05-10 14:46:08.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-cell/kernel/stop_machine.c	2007-05-10 14:47:12.000000000 +1000
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static int stopmachine(void *cpu)
 		if (stopmachine_state == STOPMACHINE_DISABLE_IRQ 
 		    && !irqs_disabled) {
 			local_irq_disable();
+			hard_irq_disable();
 			irqs_disabled = 1;
 			/* Ack: irqs disabled. */
 			smp_mb(); /* Must read state first. */
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ static int stop_machine(void)
 
 	/* Make them disable irqs. */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	hard_irq_disable();
 	stopmachine_set_state(STOPMACHINE_DISABLE_IRQ);
 
 	return 0;
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