Hi, This patch allows idr to be used in irq context. idr_pre_get() is necessary to be called before idr_get_new() is called. No locking is necessary when calling idr_pre_get(). But idr_get_new(), idr_find() and idr_remove() must be serialized with respect to each other. All of the aforementioned, may end up in alloc_layer() or free_layer() which grabs the idp lock using spin_lock. If idr_get_new() or idr_remove() is used in IRQ context, then we may get a lockup when idr_pre_get was called in process context and an IRQ interrupted while it held the idp lock. This patch changes the spin_lock to spin_lock_irqsave, and spin_unlock to spin_unlock_irqrestore, to allow idr_get_new(), idr_find() and idr_remove() to be called from IRQ context, while idr_pre_get() to be called in process context. Signed-off-by: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.12.5/lib/idr.c.old 2005-08-16 17:20:08.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.12.5/lib/idr.c 2005-08-16 17:22:16.000000000 -0400 @@ -37,27 +37,29 @@ static struct idr_layer *alloc_layer(struct idr *idp) { struct idr_layer *p; + unsigned long flags; - spin_lock(&idp->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&idp->lock, flags); if ((p = idp->id_free)) { idp->id_free = p->ary[0]; idp->id_free_cnt--; p->ary[0] = NULL; } - spin_unlock(&idp->lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idp->lock, flags); return(p); } static void free_layer(struct idr *idp, struct idr_layer *p) { + unsigned long flags; /* * Depends on the return element being zeroed. */ - spin_lock(&idp->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&idp->lock, flags); p->ary[0] = idp->id_free; idp->id_free = p; idp->id_free_cnt++; - spin_unlock(&idp->lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idp->lock, flags); } /** - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html