Re: Please disregard; was: [PATCH] arch/mips/kernel/irq_cpu.c interrupt safety?

[William Jhun <wjhun@ayrnetworks.com>]

Please disregard this, I jumped the gun on this one. These routines are
only ever called from arch/mips/kernel/irq.c, which always safely
calls these routines under the irq_desc's spinlock (or in the case of
ack(), do_IRQ() is already invoked with interrupts turned off).

I'll be sure to grep a little more carefully next time. ;o)

Will

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:41:51PM -0700, William Jhun wrote:
> The mips_cpu_irq_*() routines in arch/mips/kernel/irq_cpu.c seem to not be
> safe; {clear,set}_cp0_*() don't provide interrupt safety while changing the 
> cp0
> register. Is this not wrong? Is there a case where an interrupt handler may
> change CP0 status? If so, the patch below (against linux_2_4) simply disables
> interrupts during these operations.
> 
> Thanks,
> Will