Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2011-01-17

Re: [PATCH] alpha: fix WARN_ON in __local_bh_enable()

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-01-17 04:39:19

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Ivan Kokshaysky
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Interrupts ought to be disabled _before_ irq_enter().

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <redacted>
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c
index 5912900..9ab234f 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c
@@ -160,15 +160,14 @@ handle_irq(int irq)
               return;
       }

-       irq_enter();
       /*
-        * handle_irq() must be called with IPL_MAX. Note that we do not
+        * From here we must proceed with IPL_MAX. Note that we do not
        * explicitly enable interrupts afterwards - some MILO PALcode
        * (namely LX164 one) seems to have severe problems with RTI
        * at IPL 0.
        */
       local_irq_disable();
+       irq_enter();
       generic_handle_irq_desc(irq, desc);
       irq_exit();
 }
-
Thanks! Applied.

Matt
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