On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:55:16 +0100 > Valentin Rothberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to >> Ingo Molnar (e58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922) running IRQ >> handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the >> interrupt line of the issuing device is still active. >> >> This patch removes IRQF_DISABLED from this documentation. It was >> mentioned to be a solution to avoid deadlocks when a device uses >> multiple interrupts. As the flag is a NOOP this solution does not work >> anymore. > > Seems good, applied to the docs tree. I reworked the commit ID in the > changelog into the standard form (adding the one-line description), > though.
Thank you. I will take care to add the one-line description in the future. Valentin > Thanks, > > jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
