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

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On 06.09.2013, at 00:09, Scott Wood wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 01:09 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 11.07.2013, at 01:08, Scott Wood wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Heh - ok :). Works for me.
> 
> What's the status on this patch?

IIUC it was ok. Ben, could you please verify?


Alex

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