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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-05-26 23:31:05 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2008-05-27 10:11:35 +0200
commit239d1fc04ed0b58d638096b12a7f6d50269d30c9 (patch)
tree746cadf690dd34a07e62ce00e7963bf2eba4710d /arch/x86
parent2956a3511c8c5dccb1d4739ead17c7c3c23a24b7 (diff)
xen: don't worry about preempt during xen_irq_enable()
When enabling interrupts, we don't need to worry about preemption, because we either enter with interrupts disabled - so no preemption - or the caller is confused and is re-enabling interrupts on some indeterminate processor. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index f6876485ee7..4a372b71239 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -235,13 +235,13 @@ static void xen_irq_enable(void)
{
struct vcpu_info *vcpu;
- /* There's a one instruction preempt window here. We need to
- make sure we're don't switch CPUs between getting the vcpu
- pointer and updating the mask. */
- preempt_disable();
+ /* We don't need to worry about being preempted here, since
+ either a) interrupts are disabled, so no preemption, or b)
+ the caller is confused and is trying to re-enable interrupts
+ on an indeterminate processor. */
+
vcpu = x86_read_percpu(xen_vcpu);
vcpu->evtchn_upcall_mask = 0;
- preempt_enable_no_resched();
/* Doesn't matter if we get preempted here, because any
pending event will get dealt with anyway. */