From: David Howells <dhowells-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Name the irq flag handling
	functions sanely
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:14:09 +0100
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[Note that this patch only alters X86, FRV, MN10300, ARM and Blackfin at the
 moment.  The other arches will need altering too as part of this patch].

The final patch of the series makes the naming of the general irq flag
functions sane.

Currently, under one configuration, linux/irqflags.h maps:

	local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable()
	local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable()
	local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save()
	...

and under the other configuration, it maps:

	raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable()
	raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable()
	raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save()
	...

This is quite confusing.  There should be one set of names expected of the
arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected
by users of this facility.

The final patch change the asm/irqflags.h headers to provide:

	flags = arch_local_save_flags()
	flags = arch_local_irq_save()
	arch_local_irq_restore(flags)
	arch_local_irq_disable()
	arch_local_irq_enable()
	arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
	arch_irqs_disabled()
	arch_safe_halt()

Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide:

	raw_local_save_flags(flags)
	raw_local_irq_save(flags)
	raw_local_irq_restore(flags)
	raw_local_irq_disable()
	raw_local_irq_enable()
	raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
	raw_irqs_disabled()
	raw_safe_halt()

with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide:

	local_save_flags(flags)
	local_irq_save(flags)
	local_irq_restore(flags)
	local_irq_disable()
	local_irq_enable()
	irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
	irqs_disabled()
	safe_halt()

with tracing included if enabled.

The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them
having to be macros.

===========
ARCH FIXUPS
===========

To make this work, some of the arches need fixing up to some extent or other:

 (1) Blackfin.

     A number of circular dependencies and other problems needed sorting out in
     the Blackfin arch.  The first few patches deal with this.  With this, most
     of the Blackfin defconfigs compile, and none of the breakage is obviously
     to do with the irqflags patches.

     This also requires a name collision between the DES crypto module and the
     Blackfin arch code to be fixed.

David