Re: [tip:irq/genirq] irq: refactor and clean up the free_irq() code flow

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  	struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq);
> -	struct irqaction **p;
> +	struct irqaction *action, **p, **pp;

The whole reason for 'pp' seems to be the confusing loop:

>  	for (;;) {
> +		action = *p;
> +		pp = p;
> +
> +		if (!action) {
> +			WARN(1, "Trying to free already-free IRQ %d\n", irq);
> +			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
> +
> +			return;
> +		}
>  
> +		p = &action->next;
> +		if (action->dev_id != dev_id)
> +			continue;
>  
> +		break;
> +	}
> +	/* Found it - now remove it from the list of entries: */
> +	*pp = action->next;

Where the need for 'pp' would go away if you'd just write it as

		if (action->dev_id == dev_id)
			break;
		p = &action->next;
	}
	*p = action->next;

instead. Which also makes it both shorter and more readable.

		Linus