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Re: [PATCH v2] x86/traps.c: refactor preemption and interrupt flag handling

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On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 07:09:44PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> The arch/x86/kernel/traps.c contains definition of two pair of helpers
> conditional_{sti,cli} to enable/disable interrupts depends on state of
> the interrupt flag and *preempt* versions of these helpers.
> 
> This patch tries to make the preemption and interrupt flag handling more
> readable by removing preempt_conditional_sti() and
> preempt_conditional_cli() helpers and usage preempt_disable() and
> preempt_enable_no_resched() for preemption in place, instead of these helpers.
> 
> The contitional_sti() and conditional_cli() are renamed to more understandable
> names: cond_local_irq_enable() and cond_local_irq_disable() respectively. So
> so that one doesn't have to go and lookup the function definition when
> looking at the code flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> ---
> Changelog v2:
>   1. Use preempt_enable_no_resched() instead of sched_preempt_enable_no_resched()
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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    Boris.

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[PATCH v2] x86/traps.c: refactor preemption and interrupt flag handling Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 14:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] x86/traps.c: refactor preemption and interrupt flag  handling Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-01-17 19:00 +0100

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