@@ -596,12 +596,13 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *new)
{
struct thread_struct *new_thread, *old_thread;
- unsigned long flags;
struct task_struct *last;
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch;
#endif
+ WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+
/* Back up the TAR across context switches.
* Note that the TAR is not available for use in the kernel. (To
* provide this, the TAR should be backed up/restored on exception
@@ -721,8 +722,6 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 */
- local_irq_save(flags);
-
/*
* We can't take a PMU exception inside _switch() since there is a
* window where the kernel stack SLB and the kernel stack are out
@@ -742,8 +741,6 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 */
- local_irq_restore(flags);
-
return last;
}
We currently turn IRQs off in __switch_to(0 but this is unnecessary as it's already disabled in the caller. This removes the IRQ disable but adds a check to make sure it is really off in case this changes in future. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)