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

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 26 16:05:16 AEST 2016



On Tuesday 26 July 2016 10:57 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> 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?

Thanks, but idea is from ben :)
Regarding the name, I looked at the initial patchset posted by
paul and took the name from it :).

But will work on that, any suggestion for the name?

Maddy

> 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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