Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c : save_flags()/cli() removal

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 15:53:56 EST


On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:12:11 +0530
Amol Lad <amol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Replaced save_flags()/cli() with spin_lock alternatives
>
> Signed-off-by: Amol Lad <amol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Andrew,
> Please add this to -mm
> ---
> --- linux-2.6.19-rc4-orig/drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c 2006-08-24 02:46:33.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.19-rc4/drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c 2006-11-06 18:03:22.000000000 +0530
> @@ -341,9 +341,7 @@ static void dma_init_read(struct NCR_ESP
> {
> unsigned long flags;
>
> -
> - save_flags(flags);
> - cli();
> + spin_lock_irqsave(esp->ehost->host_lock, flags);
>
> mca_disable_dma(esp->dma);
> mca_set_dma_mode(esp->dma, MCA_DMA_MODE_XFER | MCA_DMA_MODE_16 |
> @@ -352,16 +350,14 @@ static void dma_init_read(struct NCR_ESP
> mca_set_dma_count(esp->dma, length / 2); /* !!! */
> mca_enable_dma(esp->dma);
>
> - restore_flags(flags);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(esp->ehost->host_lock, flags);
> }
>
> static void dma_init_write(struct NCR_ESP *esp, __u32 addr, int length)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
>
> -
> - save_flags(flags);
> - cli();
> + spin_lock_irqsave(esp->ehost->host_lock, flags);
>
> mca_disable_dma(esp->dma);
> mca_set_dma_mode(esp->dma, MCA_DMA_MODE_XFER | MCA_DMA_MODE_WRITE |
> @@ -370,7 +366,7 @@ static void dma_init_write(struct NCR_ES
> mca_set_dma_count(esp->dma, length / 2); /* !!! */
> mca_enable_dma(esp->dma);
>
> - restore_flags(flags);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(esp->ehost->host_lock, flags);
> }
>
> static void dma_ints_off(struct NCR_ESP *esp)

hm. How do we find out if this works?

If it _does_ work then we can now remove the Kconfig BROKEN_ON_SMP dependency
for this driver.

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