On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 03:23:08PM +0100, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
> The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and has been scheduled for removal since
> Linux v2.6.36 by commit 6932bf37bed4 ("genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from
> core code").
>
> According to commit e58aa3d2d0cc ("genirq: Run irq handlers with
> interrupts disabled") running IRQ handlers with interrupts enabled can
> cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the issuing device is
> still active.
>
> This patch ends the grace period for IRQF_DISABLED (i.e., SA_INTERRUPT
> in older versions of Linux) and removes the definition and all remaining
> usages of this flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The bigger hunk in Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt is removed entirely
> as IRQF_DISABLED is gone now; the usage in older kernel versions
> (including the old SA_INTERRUPT flag) should be discouraged. The
> trouble of using IRQF_SHARED is a general problem and not specific to
> any driver.
>
> I left the reference in Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt untouched since
> it has already been removed in linux-next by commit b0e1ee8e1405
> ("MSI-HOWTO.txt: remove reference on IRQF_DISABLED").
>
> All remaining references are changelogs that I suggest to keep.
>
> Changelog
>
> v2: Correct previous change to drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c that
> broke compilation. Reported by Dan Carpenter.
> ---
> Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt | 25 -------------------------
> Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt | 4 ----
> arch/mips/loongson/loongson-3/hpet.c | 2 +-
> drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/bus/omap_l3_noc.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/bus/omap_l3_smx.c | 10 ++++------
> drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c | 3 +--
> drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-core.c | 3 +--
> drivers/usb/isp1760/isp1760-udc.c | 4 ++--
> include/linux/interrupt.h | 3 ---
> 10 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>
For this piece:
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c
> index 289ad3ac3e80..8dcc7b8fee40 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/hisi504_nand.c
> @@ -758,8 +758,7 @@ static int hisi_nfc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> hisi_nfc_host_init(host);
>
> - ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, hinfc_irq_handle, IRQF_DISABLED,
> - "nandc", host);
> + ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, hinfc_irq_handle, 0x0, "nandc", host);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(dev, "failed to request IRQ\n");
> goto err_res;
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Sorry for the oversight in review, and thanks for the fixup.
Brian
