genirq: Remove the deprecated 'IRQF_DISABLED' request_irq() flag entirely

The IRQF_DISABLED flag is a NOOP and has been scheduled for removal
since Linux v2.6.36 by commit 6932bf37bed4 ("genirq: Remove
IRQF_DISABLED from core code").

According to commit e58aa3d2d0cc ("genirq: Run irq handlers with
interrupts disabled"), running IRQ handlers with interrupts
enabled can cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the
issuing device is still active.

This patch ends the grace period for IRQF_DISABLED (i.e.,
SA_INTERRUPT in older versions of Linux) and removes the
definition and all remaining usages of this flag.

There's still a few non-functional references left in the kernel
source:

  - The bigger hunk in Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt is removed entirely
    as IRQF_DISABLED is gone now; the usage in older kernel versions
    (including the old SA_INTERRUPT flag) should be discouraged.  The
    trouble of using IRQF_SHARED is a general problem and not specific to
    any driver.

  - I left the reference in Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt untouched since
    it has already been removed in linux-next.

  - All remaining references are changelogs that I suggest to keep.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Afzal Mohammed <afzal@ti.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Hongliang Tao <taohl@lemote.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com>
Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
Cc: iss_storagedev@hp.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425565425-12604-1-git-send-email-valentinrothberg@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
index 0810132772a8..0e0322bf0020 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/tmscsim.txt
@@ -107,10 +107,6 @@ produced errors and started to corrupt my disks. So don't do that! A 37.50
 MHz PCI bus works for me, though, but I don't recommend using higher clocks
 than the 33.33 MHz being in the PCI spec.
 
-If you want to share the IRQ with another device and the driver refuses to
-do so, you might succeed with changing the DC390_IRQ type in tmscsim.c to 
-IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_DISABLED.
-
 
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