why use 'raw_spin_lock_irqsave' inf function 'of_find_node_with_property'

[Tabi Timur-B04825]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Huang Changming-R66093
<r66093 at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> In function “of_find_node_with_property”, why use “raw_spin_lock_irqsave” to
> disable preemption and disable interrupt?

Where do you see raw_spin_lock_irqsave?

struct device_node *of_find_node_with_property(struct device_node *from,
	const char *prop_name)
{
	struct device_node *np;
	struct property *pp;

	read_lock(&devtree_lock);
	np = from ? from->allnext : allnodes;
	for (; np; np = np->allnext) {
		for (pp = np->properties; pp != 0; pp = pp->next) {
			if (of_prop_cmp(pp->name, prop_name) == 0) {
				of_node_get(np);
				goto out;
			}
		}
	}
out:
	of_node_put(from);
	read_unlock(&devtree_lock);
	return np;
}

We need a lock so that we don't parse the tree while it's being
modified.  That would cause the for-loop to fail in strange ways.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale