[RESEND PATCH] ARM: fix 'unannotated irqs-on' lockdep warning

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 09:44:20PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 2010/5/23 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> >>  ENTRY(ret_to_user)
> >>  ret_slow_syscall:
> >> -     disable_irq                             @ disable interrupts
> >> +     disable_irq_notrace                             @ disable interrupts
> >
> > I think this one does need to be traced - the pending work functions are
> > all C code which could call back into lockdep.
> 
> If there are pending works, schedule will be called to give cpu to it,
> I wonder why the work function to be scheduled will be run with irq
> disabled. Seems we should enable irq again before calling schedule,
> not sure.

No.  I'm talking about things like do_notify_resume().

I think the above should be left as-is, so that as far as lockdep is
concerned, IRQs are off while userspace runs.  What happens between
returning to userspace and re-entering the kernel has no bearing what
so ever on lockdep.