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    [PATCH] lockdep: floppy.c irq release fix · 3e541a4a
    Ingo Molnar authored
    The lock validator triggered a number of bugs in the floppy driver, all
    related to the floppy driver allocating and freeing irq and dma resources from
    interrupt context.  The initial solution was to use schedule_work() to push
    this into process context, but this caused further problems: for example the
    current floppy driver in -mm2 is totally broken and all floppy commands time
    out with an error.  (as reported by Barry K.  Nathan)
    
    This patch tries another solution: simply get rid of all that dynamic IRQ and
    DMA allocation/freeing.  I doubt it made much sense back in the heydays of
    floppies (if two devices raced for DMA or IRQ resources then we didnt handle
    those cases too gracefully anyway), and today it makes near zero sense.
    
    So the new code does the simplest and most straightforward thing: allocate IRQ
    and DMA resources at module init time, and free them at module removal time.
    Dont try to release while the driver is operational.  This, besides making the
    floppy driver functional again has an added bonus, floppy IRQ stats are
    finally persistent and visible in /proc/interrupts:
    
      6: 63 XT-PIC-level floppy
    
    Besides normal floppy IO i have also tested IO error handling, motor-off
    timeouts, etc.  - and everything seems to be working fine.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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