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This got me confused for a bit while looking over this code: I had been planning on adding some blocking function calls into this function, but seeing the irqsave/irqrestore variants of spin_(un)lock() didn't make it very clear whether or not that would actually be safe. So I went ahead and reviewed every single driver in the kernel that uses this function, and they all fall into three categories: * Driver probe code * ->atomic_disable() callbacks * Legacy modesetting callbacks All of these will be guaranteed to have IRQs enabled, which means it's perfectly safe to block here. Just to make things a little less confusing to others in the future, let's switch over to spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq() to make that fact a little more obvious. Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200627194657.156514-3-lyude@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.