[patch] big IRQ lock removal, 2.5.27-G0

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 11:26:36 EST


the -G0 irqlock patch can be found at:

   http://redhat.com/~mingo/remove-irqlock-patches/remove-irqlock-2.5.27-G0

Changes in -G0:

 - fix buggy in_softirq(). Fortunately the bug made the test broader,
   which didnt result in algorithmical breakage, just suboptimal
   performance.

 - move do_softirq() processing into irq_exit() => this also fixes the
   softirq processing bugs present in apic.c IRQ handlers that did not
   test for softirqs after irq_exit().

 - simplify local_bh_enable().

Changes in -F9:

 - replace all instances of:

        local_save_flags(flags);
        local_irq_disable();

   with the shorter form of:

        local_irq_save(flags);

  about 30 files are affected by this change.

Changes in -F8:

 - preempt/hardirq/softirq count separation, cleanups.

 - skbuff.c fix.

 - use irq_count() in scheduler_tick()

Changes in -F3:

 - the entry.S cleanups/speedups by Oleg Nesterov.

 - a rather critical synchronize_irq() bugfix: if a driver frees an
   interrupt that is still being probed then synchronize_irq() locks up.
   This bug has caused a spurious boot-lockup on one of my testsystems,
   ifconfig would lock up trying to close eth0.

 - remove duplicate definitions from asm-i386/system.h, this fixes
   compiler warnings.

        Ingo

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