spin_lock_irqsave only re-enables interrupts while spinning on some archs?

[Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>]

On some architectures, spin_lock_irqsave() re-enables interrupts when
spinning while waiting for the lock to become available.  The list
of archs includes i386, powerpc and ia64.  Others leave interrupts
disabled while spinning (x86_64, arm, alpha).  They just define
__raw_spin_lock_flags to be the same as __raw_spin_lock.  (And
because predication is so efficient, ia64 does the opposite:
it uses __raw_spin_lock_flags for everything -- a neat trick.)

Shouldn't there be a standard way of doing this?  Is there any practical
difference in behavior?

-- 
Chuck
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