Re: [PATCH 2/3] kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup

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On 07/10/2013 06:04:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:

On 11.07.2013, at 01:01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 00:57 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
>>> +     /*
>>> + * To avoid races, the caller must have gone directly from having
>>> +      * interrupts fully-enabled to hard-disabled.
>>> +      */
>>> +     WARN_ON(local_paca->irq_happened != PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS);
>>
>> WARN_ON(lazy_irq_pending()); ?
>
> Different semantics. What you propose will not catch irq_happened == 0 :-)

Right, but we only ever reach here after hard_irq_disable() I think.

And the WARN_ON helps us ensure that it stays that way.

-Scott
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