linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 x86 architecture no longer Oopses...

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:31:13 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	trond.myklebust@....uio.no, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 x86 architecture no longer Oopses...


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > +/*
> > + * Migration helpers - the proper API is the local_read_flags API.
> > + * Will go away in v2.6.26.
> > + */
> > +#define local_save_flags		local_read_flags
> > +#define __local_save_flags		__local_read_flags
> > +#define raw_local_save_flags		raw_local_read_flags
> > +#define __raw_local_save_flags		__raw_local_read_flags
> > +
> 
> Looks good.  We also have local_irq_save(), raw_local_irq_save() and 
> __raw_local_irq_save() which might or might not disable interrupts.  
> (Do we really need three flavours of these?)

all disable interrupts. All the raw_ and __ APIs are for internal use 
only, they should _not_ be used by anything but directly lockdep related 
code.

> I guess that people's understanding of spin_lock_irqsave() (note the 
> irqsave versus irq_save inconsistency) is sufficiently good for nobody 
> to get tripped up by local_irq_save().  But it's a poor name 
> nonetheless.

yeah, but it's the historic name that stems from the old cli() API that 
had "global scope". I guess these days people know that irq-disabling is 
a CPU-local business, not a global thing? I cannot think of any good 
alternative name though.

	Ingo
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