[PATCH 0/7] ppc: remove cli()/sti() from arch/ppc/*
Jim Nelson
james4765 at cwazy.co.uk
Wed Jan 5 22:19:31 EST 2005
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:44:06PM -0500, Jim Nelson wrote:
>
>>Brian Gerst wrote:
>>
>>
>>>James Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This series of patches is to remove the last cli()/sti() function
>>>>calls in arch/ppc.
>>>>
>>>>These are the only instances in active code that grep could find.
>>>
>>>
>>>Are you sure none of these need real spinlocks instead of just
>>>disabling interrupts?
>>>
>>>--
>>> Brian Gerst
>>>
>>
>>These are for single-processor systems, mostly evaluation boards and
>>embedded processors. I coudn't find any reference to multiprocessor
>>setups for the processors in question after a peruse of the code or a
>>quick google on the boards in question.
>
>
> think CONFIG_PREEMPT. In either case a spinlock becomes
> lock_irq_disable in the !SMP, !PREEMPT case but it documents the
> intention a whole lot better.
>
> Also you're locking only in a single plpace which is a ***BIG*** warning
> sign. At least look at the other users of the data structure, it's
> extremly likely they'll need locking aswell.
>
Some of the cli() uses were in shutdown and IRQ setup code, where you'd just need
to disable interrupts. There are a few files that will need a more thourough
going-through, however.
I'll start checking those later.
Jim
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