linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add typecheck on irqsave and friends for correct flags

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 21:57:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org,
	hch@...radead.org, adobriyan@...il.com, bunk@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add typecheck on irqsave and friends for correct flags


On Thu, 1 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Then we would have been forced to do the
> >
> > 	irqflags_t spin_lock_irqsave(spinlock_t *lock);
> >
> > trick. Which would probably be the better long term solution, but the
> > biggest PITA for you in the short term.
>
> We should have done that from day one.  If there's an architecture out
> there which cannot fit its interrupt state into its unsigned long (hard to
> believe) then it'll need to pull stunts with cookies and lookups or
> something.  And on 64-bit architectures we're using 4 more bytes of local
> storage than is needed.
>
> But I don't think we've had enough problems with this particular issue to
> justify a kernel-wide edit like that.  And this patch should settle the
> issue.

I'm just thinking of all the wonderful tricks at hand if we had a special
irqflags_t type. But I'm sure you don't want any more special tricks from
us with respect to spinlocks ;-)

-- Steve

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