Re: [mmotm and linux-next][PATCH] irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_classin CONFIG_LOCKDEP

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 05:24:01 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > #include "internals.h"
> > >
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> > > /*
> > > * lockdep: we want to handle all irq_desc locks as a single lock-class:
> > > */
> > > static struct lock_class_key irq_desc_lock_class;
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > /**
> > > * handle_bad_irq - handle spurious and unhandled irqs
> > >
> >
> > No, lockdep.h (which we forgot to include) already handles that:
> >
> > # define lockdep_set_class(lock, key) do { (void)(key); } while (0)
> >
> > the problem is that the code which references irq_desc_lock_class is
> > inside #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ, so this is a better fix:
>
> agreed that this is the better fix - applied to tip/irq/sparseirq,
> thanks!

actually, this breaks the build on !SPARSEIRQ because we will use that
class in the non-sparseirq case. So we've converted a build warning to a
build failure ;-)

Ingo
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