[RFC PATCH 1/9] Add #defs for paca->soft_enabled flags

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 15:27:06 AEST 2016


On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:22:14 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Two #defs LAZY_INTERRUPT_ENABLED and
> LAZY_INTERRUPT_DISABLED are added to be used
> when updating paca->soft_enabled.

This is a very nice patchset, but can this not be a new name?
We use "soft enabled/disabled" everywhere for it. I think lazy
is an implementation detail anyway because some interrupts don't
cause a hard disable at all.

Thanks,
Nick


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