[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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