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genirq: Add kerneldoc for irq_disable.

Document the lazy disable functionality. comment based on changelog of
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Signed-off-by: Andreas Fenkart <andreas.fenkart@streamunlimited.com>
Cc: balbi@ti.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368181290-1583-1-git-send-email-andreas.fenkart@streamunlimited.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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Andreas Fenkart and committed by
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kernel/irq/chip.c
··· 213 213 irq_state_clr_masked(desc); 214 214 } 215 215 216 + /** 217 + * irq_disable - Mark interupt disabled 218 + * @desc: irq descriptor which should be disabled 219 + * 220 + * If the chip does not implement the irq_disable callback, we 221 + * use a lazy disable approach. That means we mark the interrupt 222 + * disabled, but leave the hardware unmasked. That's an 223 + * optimization because we avoid the hardware access for the 224 + * common case where no interrupt happens after we marked it 225 + * disabled. If an interrupt happens, then the interrupt flow 226 + * handler masks the line at the hardware level and marks it 227 + * pending. 228 + */ 216 229 void irq_disable(struct irq_desc *desc) 217 230 { 218 231 irq_state_set_disabled(desc);