Commit 379af13b authored by Alexander Sverdlin's avatar Alexander Sverdlin Committed by Thomas Gleixner

docs: locking: Discourage from calling disable_irq() in atomic

Correct the example in the documentation so that disable_irq() is not being
called in atomic context.

disable_irq() calls sleeping synchronize_irq(), it's not allowed to call
them in atomic context.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87k02wbs2n.ffs@tglx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221212163715.830315-1-alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com
parent 17549b0f
......@@ -1277,11 +1277,11 @@ Manfred Spraul points out that you can still do this, even if the data
is very occasionally accessed in user context or softirqs/tasklets. The
irq handler doesn't use a lock, and all other accesses are done as so::
spin_lock(&lock);
mutex_lock(&lock);
disable_irq(irq);
...
enable_irq(irq);
spin_unlock(&lock);
mutex_unlock(&lock);
The disable_irq() prevents the irq handler from running
(and waits for it to finish if it's currently running on other CPUs).
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......@@ -1307,11 +1307,11 @@ se i dati vengono occasionalmente utilizzati da un contesto utente o
da un'interruzione software. Il gestore d'interruzione non utilizza alcun
*lock*, e tutti gli altri accessi verranno fatti così::
spin_lock(&lock);
mutex_lock(&lock);
disable_irq(irq);
...
enable_irq(irq);
spin_unlock(&lock);
mutex_unlock(&lock);
La funzione disable_irq() impedisce al gestore d'interruzioni
d'essere eseguito (e aspetta che finisca nel caso fosse in esecuzione su
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