when spin_lock_irq (as opposed to spin_lock_irqsave) is appropriate?

[Andrey Borzenkov]

Logically, one piece of kernel code has no way to know whether another
piece of kernel code (or may be hard-/firmware) has disabled some
interrupt line. So it looks like spin_lock_irq should not even exist,
except may be for very specific cases (where we are sure no other piece
of kernel code may run concurrently)?

Sorry for stupid question, I an not actually a HW type of person ...

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