Commit ad625ee4 authored by Thunder From The Hill's avatar Thunder From The Hill Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cli-sti-removal.txt fixup

Things look rather like this..
parent c482e28f
......@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ released.
drivers that want to disable local interrupts (interrupts on the
current CPU), can use the following five macros:
local_irq_disable(), local_irq_enable(), local_irq_save(flags),
local_irq_save_off(flags), local_irq_restore(flags)
local_irq_disable(), local_irq_enable(), local_save_flags(flags),
local_irq_save(flags), local_irq_restore(flags)
but beware, their meaning and semantics are much simpler, far from
that of the old cli(), sti(), save_flags(flags) and restore_flags(flags)
......@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ SMP meaning:
local_irq_enable() => turn local IRQs on
local_irq_save(flags) => save the current IRQ state into flags. The
local_save_flags(flags) => save the current IRQ state into flags. The
state can be on or off. (on some
architectures there's even more bits in it.)
local_irq_save_off(flags) => save the current IRQ state into flags and
local_irq_save(flags) => save the current IRQ state into flags and
disable interrupts.
local_irq_restore(flags) => restore the IRQ state from flags.
......
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