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, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 3bb01b9a379c..2cee1761c77d 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@
  * These flags used only by the kernel as part of the
  * irq handling routines.
  *
- * IRQF_DISABLED - keep irqs disabled when calling the action handler.
- *                 DEPRECATED. This flag is a NOOP and scheduled to be removed
  * IRQF_SHARED - allow sharing the irq among several devices
  * IRQF_PROBE_SHARED - set by callers when they expect sharing mismatches to occur
  * IRQF_TIMER - Flag to mark this interrupt as timer interrupt
@@ -58,7 +56,6 @@
  * IRQF_EARLY_RESUME - Resume IRQ early during syscore instead of at device
  *                resume time.
  */
-#define IRQF_DISABLED		0x00000020
 #define IRQF_SHARED		0x00000080
 #define IRQF_PROBE_SHARED	0x00000100
 #define __IRQF_TIMER		0x00000200