Re: [PATCH] advansys.c: include missing restore_flags, etc

[Russell King]

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo writes:
> 	Please consider applying, comments in the patch.

Can't the following be fixed properly?

> -STATIC int
> +STATIC unsigned long
>  DvcEnterCritical(void)
>  {
> -    int    flags;
> +    unsigned long flags;
>  
>      save_flags(flags);
>      cli();

Guess what happens here?

    return flags;

> @@ -9965,7 +9972,7 @@
>  }
>  
>  STATIC void
> -DvcLeaveCritical(int flags)
> +DvcLeaveCritical(unsigned long flags)
>  {
>      restore_flags(flags);
>  }

The above doesn't work on some architectures.  Its better to use a macro
if you want to separate this out.  ie, something like (davem will have to
okay it tho):

#define DvcEnterCritical()				\
 ({ unsigned long __flags; save_flags(__flags); cli(); __flags; })

#define DvcLeaveCritical(flags)				\
 do { restore_flags(flags); } while (0)

This should then ensure that you don't end up with problems associated
with register windows on the sparc or whatever.  Even better would be
to use a spinlock instead of Dvc?????Critical.
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