[PATCH v1 05/20] ARC: rwlock: disable interrupts in !LLSC variant

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 03:12:49PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > @@ -664,16 +670,24 @@ static inline void arch_write_lock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
> >  
> >  static inline void arch_read_unlock(arch_rwlock_t *rw)
> >  {
> > +	unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > +	local_irq_save(flags);
> >  	arch_spin_lock(&(rw->lock_mutex));
> 
> 
> Isn't raw_spin_lock_irqsave() equivalent and more concise ?

You might run into header file recursion issues; also raw_spinlock has
lockdep annotations added, whereas the above does not.