From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:23:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:23:57 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:35280 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:23:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:30:28 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: mingo@redhat.com, torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] fix Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt thinko Message-Id: <20030217133028.4fd505f2.rddunlap@osdl.org> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Please apply to 2.5.61. The 3 lines being deleted are repeated from above (in same file). I pulled the 2 lines being added from an earlier version of the patch. -- ~Randy patch_name: cli-fixdoc.patch patch_version: 2003-02-17.13:15:29 author: Randy.Dunlap description: correct cli-sti-removal.txt cut-n-paste'os product: Linux product_versions: linux-2561 changelog: _ URL: _ requires: _ conflicts: _ diffstat: = cli-sti-removal.txt | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -Naur ./Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt%CLI ./Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt --- ./Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt%CLI Fri Feb 14 15:51:21 2003 +++ ./Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt Mon Feb 17 13:15:09 2003 @@ -121,9 +121,8 @@ another related change is that synchronize_irq() now takes a parameter: synchronize_irq(irq). This change too has the purpose of making SMP -to make the transition easier, we've still kept the cli(), sti(), -save_flags() and restore_flags() macros defined on UP systems - but -their usage will be phased out until the 2.6 kernel is released. +synchronization more lightweight - this way you can wait for your own +interrupt handler to finish, no need to wait for other IRQ sources. why were these changes done? The main reason was the architectural burden