Re: [PATCH 1/2] rt/threadirqs: don't need to save irqs indo_hardirq()

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 18:28:18 EST


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:24:59PM -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:27:08PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker escreveu:
> > do_hardirq() has only one caller do_irqd() in a path where irq are already
> > disabled. So we don't need to save irqs while holding desc->lock
> >
> > Replace spin_lock_irqsave by spin_lock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/irq/manage.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> > index ed7c5e3..6e9baf8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
> > +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> > @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ static void do_hardirq(struct irq_desc *desc)
> > {
> > unsigned long flags;
>
> Can flags be removed too?


Actually... I cheated.
Once the two patches were done, I saw the unused variable warning. So I remade the second patch
to remove flags but..yes it should be on the first patch, I must confess...

> > - spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
> > + spin_lock(&desc->lock);
> >
> > if (!(desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS))
> > goto out;
> > @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ static void do_hardirq(struct irq_desc *desc)
> > else
> > thread_do_irq(desc);
> > out:
> > - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
> > + spin_unlock(&desc->lock);
> >
> > if (waitqueue_active(&desc->wait_for_handler))
> > wake_up(&desc->wait_for_handler);

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