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SubjectRe: Can request_irq be called under spinlock?
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I dont think that proc_mkdir conventions have changed
> > recently. According to git blame fs/proc/generic.c:
> >
> > ^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 580) ent =
> > kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> >
>
> I think its new that request_irq ends up calling proc_mkdir though. But its
> moot now anyway; I cleaned up that code, and don't call request_irq under
> spinlock any more.

Just checked. The register_irq_proc() and register_handler_proc()
calls in request/setup_irq() have the same time stamp in git :)

Thanks,

tglx


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