genirq: Provide a lockdep helper
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:08:15 +0000 (17:08 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:22:06 +0000 (20:22 +0100)
Some irq chips need to call genirq functions for nested chips from
their callbacks. That upsets lockdep. So they need to set a different
lock class for those nested chips. Provide a helper function to avoid
open access to irq_desc.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
include/linux/irqdesc.h

Simple merge