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| author | Thunder From The Hill <thunder@ngforever.de> | 2002-07-24 18:47:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com> | 2002-07-24 18:47:59 -0700 |
| commit | ad625ee48cf59c39781fe2e6a75ecfd85315495d (patch) | |
| tree | 91a5659f2d62b450dd269ca51bc504978308200d /Documentation | |
| parent | c482e28f2b4d0583fe9a8efbe875836fdf389b30 (diff) | |
[PATCH] cli-sti-removal.txt fixup
Things look rather like this..
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt b/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt index 13c744dac866..d74abcfec53d 100644 --- a/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt +++ b/Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt @@ -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. |