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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:50:48 +0300
From:	Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...ts.openrisc.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openrisc: call do_notify_resume() with interrupts enabled

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:12:37AM +0300, Stefan Kristiansson wrote:
> A signal delivered through do_notify_resume() would cause the
> irqs_disabled() check in _local_bh_enable_ip() to be triggered.
> 
> Enable interrupts before calling do_notify_resume().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>
> ---
>  arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S b/arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S
> index d8a455e..55ffc97 100644
> --- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -874,6 +874,7 @@ _work_pending:
>   * must be set so that the syscall restart functionality works.
>   */
>  _work_notifysig:
> +	ENABLE_INTERRUPTS(r29)
>  	l.jal	do_notify_resume
>  	 l.ori	r3,r1,0		  /* pt_regs */
>  

I just realised that this one-liner isn't quite enough,
the flags that are used in do_notify_resume() has to be read with
interrupts off.
Revised patch coming up.

Stefan
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