[PATCH]: Sparc no longer Fucked Up

[PATCH]: Sparc no longer Fucked Up

[Rusty Russell]

From: Keith M Wesolowski <wesolows@foobazco.org>

As of 2.6.3, restore_flags will no longer modify cwp on sparc.
Therefore you can apply this patch to the locking guide.

[ Indeed.  I'll also remove the atomic comments from Hacking
  Guide as part of my revision there when I get back to it.  --RR ]

diff -Nru a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl	Sun Feb  8 15:07:26 2004
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl	Sun Feb  8 15:07:26 2004
@@ -1444,27 +1444,6 @@
     </para>
    </sect1>
 
-   <sect1 id="sparc">
-    <title>The Fucked Up Sparc</title>
-
-    <para>
-      Alan Cox says <quote>the irq disable/enable is in the register
-      window on a sparc</quote>.  Andi Kleen says <quote>when you do
-      restore_flags in a different function you mess up all the
-      register windows</quote>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      So never pass the flags word set by
-      <function>spin_lock_irqsave()</function> and brethren to another
-      function (unless it's declared <type>inline</type>).  Usually no-one
-      does this, but now you've been warned.  Dave Miller can never do
-      anything in a straightforward manner (I can say that, because I have
-      pictures of him and a certain PowerPC maintainer in a compromising
-      position).
-    </para>
-   </sect1>
-
   </chapter>
 
  <chapter id="Efficiency">

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