Re: [PATCH] Fixes gemmi_idle in file idle.c
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Jun 30 2014 - 02:44:12 EST
On Sunday 29 June 2014 22:52:40 Nicholas Krause wrote:
> disables the IRQ line in gemmi_idle before calling cpu_do_idle.
> In addition, according to the Fixme message in this file fixes
> races that may occur due to not disabling the IRQ before calling
> cpu_do_idle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
Have you actually read the comment above the function?
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-gemini/idle.c b/arch/arm/mach-gemini/idle.c
> index ddf8ec9..2880f5a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-gemini/idle.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-gemini/idle.c
> @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ static void gemini_idle(void)
> * disabled.
> */
>
> - /* FIXME: Enabling interrupts here is racy! */
> - local_irq_enable();
> + local_irq_disable();
> cpu_do_idle();
> }
This has the same effect as deleting the entire file. Doing that
is probably the right thing now that 8182a34d85698 ("ARM: 7760/1:
cpu_fa526_do_idle: remove WFI") has been merged, but that needs
a better changeset description to explain why it was needed before
and is not needed any more.
Please submit a new patch doing that.
Arnd
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