riscom8: fix SMP brokenness

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After analyzing the elements that save_flags/cli/sti/restore_flags were
protecting, convert their usages to a global spinlock (the easiest and
most obvious next-step).  There were some usages of flags being
intentionally cached, because the code already knew the state of
interrupts.  These have been taken into account.

This allows us to remove CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP.  Completely untested.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Jeff Garzik 2008-02-06 01:36:11 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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