The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to
Ingo Molnar (e58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922) running IRQ
handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the
interrupt line of the issuing device is still active.
This patch removes IRQF_DISABLED from this documentation. It was
mentioned to be a solution to avoid deadlocks when a device uses
multiple interrupts. As the flag is a NOOP this solution does not work
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
index 0d920d5..a78bfca 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
@@ -501,13 +501,9 @@ necessary to disable interrupts (Linux guarantees the same interrupt will
not be re-entered). If a device uses multiple interrupts, the driver
must disable interrupts while the lock is held. If the device sends
a different interrupt, the driver will deadlock trying to recursively
-acquire the spinlock.
-
-There are two solutions. The first is to take the lock with
-spin_lock_irqsave() or spin_lock_irq() (see
-Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking). The second is to specify
-IRQF_DISABLED to request_irq() so that the kernel runs the entire
-interrupt routine with interrupts disabled.
+acquire the spinlock. Such deadlocks can be avoided by using
+spin_lock_irqsave() or spin_lock_irq() which disable local interrupts
+and acquire the lock (see Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking).
If your MSI interrupt routine does not hold the lock for the whole time
it is running, the first solution may be best. The second solution is
--
1.9.1