Re: [patch] sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave()

[Robin Holt]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:48:05AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The code here has a nested spin_lock_irqsave().  It's not needed since
> IRQs are already disabled and it causes a problem because it means that
> IRQs won't be enabled again at the end.  The second call to
> spin_lock_irqsave() will overwrite the value of irq_flags and we can't
> restore the proper settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
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