Re: [PATCH v2] MSI-HOWTO.txt: remove reference on IRQF_DISABLED

From: Valentin Rothberg
Date: Fri Feb 27 2015 - 17:23:14 EST


On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:55:16 +0100
> Valentin Rothberg <Valentin.Rothberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to
>> Ingo Molnar (e58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922) running IRQ
>> handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the
>> interrupt line of the issuing device is still active.
>>
>> This patch removes IRQF_DISABLED from this documentation. It was
>> mentioned to be a solution to avoid deadlocks when a device uses
>> multiple interrupts. As the flag is a NOOP this solution does not work
>> anymore.
>
> Seems good, applied to the docs tree. I reworked the commit ID in the
> changelog into the standard form (adding the one-line description),
> though.

Thank you. I will take care to add the one-line description in the future.

Valentin

> Thanks,
>
> jon
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