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stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disable

PATCH In review Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2 participants 2 messages May 10, 2007

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PATCH 3/3 stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disable

Add a call to hard_irq_disable() to stop_machine so that we make sure IRQs are really disabled and not only lazy-disabled on archs like powerpc as some users of stop_machine() may rely on that.

 kernel/stop_machine.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
kernel/stop_machine.c +2 -0
Index: linux-cell/kernel/stop_machine.c
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@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static int stopmachine(void *cpu)
 		if (stopmachine_state == STOPMACHINE_DISABLE_IRQ 
 		    && !irqs_disabled) {
 			local_irq_disable();
+			hard_irq_disable();
 			irqs_disabled = 1;
 			/* Ack: irqs disabled. */
 			smp_mb(); /* Must read state first. */
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ static int stop_machine(void)
 
 	/* Make them disable irqs. */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	hard_irq_disable();
 	stopmachine_set_state(STOPMACHINE_DISABLE_IRQ);
 
 	return 0;