Re: [PATCH] vfio/platform: Replace spin_lock_irqsave by spin_lock in hard IRQ

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:00:58 +0800
Tian Tao <tiant...@hisilicon.com> wrote:

> It is redundant to do irqsave and irqrestore in hardIRQ context.

But this function is also called from non-IRQ context.  Thanks,

Alex
 
> Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiant...@hisilicon.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c 
> b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c
> index c5b09ec..24fd6c5 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_irq.c
> @@ -139,10 +139,9 @@ static int vfio_platform_set_irq_unmask(struct 
> vfio_platform_device *vdev,
>  static irqreturn_t vfio_automasked_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  {
>       struct vfio_platform_irq *irq_ctx = dev_id;
> -     unsigned long flags;
>       int ret = IRQ_NONE;
>  
> -     spin_lock_irqsave(&irq_ctx->lock, flags);
> +     spin_lock(&irq_ctx->lock);
>  
>       if (!irq_ctx->masked) {
>               ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
> @@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ static irqreturn_t vfio_automasked_irq_handler(int irq, 
> void *dev_id)
>               irq_ctx->masked = true;
>       }
>  
> -     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&irq_ctx->lock, flags);
> +     spin_unlock(&irq_ctx->lock);
>  
>       if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED)
>               eventfd_signal(irq_ctx->trigger, 1);