Re: [PATCH 00/19] fixup usage of non-raw spinlocks in irqchips

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Mar 15 2017 - 05:51:58 EST


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Julia Cartwright <julia@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The following patchset introduces a new coccinelle patch,
> irq_chip_raw_spinlock.cocci, which is used to identify irq_chip implementors
> which acquire/release non-raw spinlocks, and in addition, a set of generated
> patches for most cases identified.

Wow that is really impressive. I expect to apply all that
are applicable to GPIO drivers. I guess this really lowers
the bar to run realtime on a whole slew of systems.

Yours,
Linus Walleij