Interrupt controllers' hooks are executed in the atomic context, so they are not permitted to sleep (with RT kernels non-raw spinlocks are sleepable). So, qe_ic_lock has to be a real (non-sleepable) spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avoront...@ru.mvista.com> --- On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:22:18PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Ben, > > the following patch series is from preempt-rt. It converts the locks > which need to be real spinlocks in -rt to raw_spinlocks. > > There is no behaviourial change for !RT kernels because spinlocks and > raw_spinlocks are the same on !RT. So for mainline this is a pure > annotation while having it in mainline takes the burden of keeping up > with the code changes from the RT patch set. > > Please consider to merge into .34. If nothing has changed in -rt, then qe_ic should be in the same boat. arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c | 10 +++++----- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c index 2acc928..9c90a34 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ #include "qe_ic.h" -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(qe_ic_lock); +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(qe_ic_lock); static struct qe_ic_info qe_ic_info[] = { [1] = { @@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ static void qe_ic_unmask_irq(unsigned int virq) unsigned long flags; u32 temp; - spin_lock_irqsave(&qe_ic_lock, flags); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&qe_ic_lock, flags); temp = qe_ic_read(qe_ic->regs, qe_ic_info[src].mask_reg); qe_ic_write(qe_ic->regs, qe_ic_info[src].mask_reg, temp | qe_ic_info[src].mask); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qe_ic_lock, flags); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qe_ic_lock, flags); } static void qe_ic_mask_irq(unsigned int virq) @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static void qe_ic_mask_irq(unsigned int virq) unsigned long flags; u32 temp; - spin_lock_irqsave(&qe_ic_lock, flags); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&qe_ic_lock, flags); temp = qe_ic_read(qe_ic->regs, qe_ic_info[src].mask_reg); qe_ic_write(qe_ic->regs, qe_ic_info[src].mask_reg, @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static void qe_ic_mask_irq(unsigned int virq) */ mb(); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qe_ic_lock, flags); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qe_ic_lock, flags); } static struct irq_chip qe_ic_irq_chip = { -- 1.6.5.7 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev