linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/62] sparc: irq: Remove IRQF

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Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:12:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yong.zhang0@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu,
	joe@...ches.com, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/62] sparc: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED

From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Sep 2011 16:10:17 +0800

> This flag is a NOOP and can be removed now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>

How are things working now, if that is the case?

Specifically in the ldc_bind() case, we're passing iRQF_DISABLED here
so that the IRQ is not turned on when we request the IRQ, we later do
enable_irq() on these after we've take the spinlock in this function.

The IRQ cannot be allowed to be delivered between the request_irq()
call and the enable_irq() calls.

This sequence is necessary to deal with some lock ordering issues.
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