Re: [Linuxarm] Re: [PATCH for next v1 1/2] gpio: omap: Replace raw_spin_lock_irqsave with raw_spin_lock in omap_gpio_irq_handler()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:42 AM Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
<song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok, second thought. irqsave before generic_handle_irq() won't defeat
> the purpose of preemption too much as the dispatched irq handlers by
> gpiochip will run in their own threads but not in the thread of
> gpiochip's handler.
>
> so looks like this patch can improve by:
> * move other raw_spin_lock_irqsave to raw_spin_lock;
> * keep the raw_spin_lock_irqsave before generic_handle_irq() to mute
> the warning in genirq.

It seems that the other drivers just call handle_nested_irq() instead
of generic_handle_irq().

       Arnd