[PATCH v4 1/4] kgdb: Remove irq flags from roundup
    Will Deacon 
    will.deacon at arm.com
       
    Thu Nov 15 08:51:13 AEDT 2018
    
    
  
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:26:55AM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> The function kgdb_roundup_cpus() was passed a parameter that was
> documented as:
> 
> > the flags that will be used when restoring the interrupts. There is
> > local_irq_save() call before kgdb_roundup_cpus().
> 
> Nobody used those flags.  Anyone who wanted to temporarily turn on
> interrupts just did local_irq_enable() and local_irq_disable() without
> looking at them.  So we can definitely remove the flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
I'm hopeful that you'll keep hacking on kgdb, because it definitely needs
some love in its current state.
Will
    
    
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