The IRQF_DISABLED is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed. According to Ingo Molnar (e58aa3d2d0cc01ad8d6f7f640a0670433f794922) running IRQ handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the issuing device is still active.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentin.rothb...@lip6.fr> --- drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c index 2b94403..9e92b2c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c +++ b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c @@ -405,8 +405,8 @@ static int cpqarray_register_ctlr(int i, struct pci_dev *pdev) goto Enomem4; } hba[i]->access.set_intr_mask(hba[i], 0); - if (request_irq(hba[i]->intr, do_ida_intr, - IRQF_DISABLED|IRQF_SHARED, hba[i]->devname, hba[i])) + if (request_irq(hba[i]->intr, do_ida_intr, IRQF_SHARED, + hba[i]->devname, hba[i])) { printk(KERN_ERR "cpqarray: Unable to get irq %d for %s\n", hba[i]->intr, hba[i]->devname); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/