Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2012-04-04

RE: [PATCH 3/4] powerpc/mpic: Move internal interrupt source vector allocation to a separate function.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2012-04-04 23:29:55

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 19:09 +0000, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
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I think that is more due to how you added the MPIC error interrupts
and
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issues w/that code.  If you are treating the MPIC error interrupts
as a
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cascade than they should have a distinct linux IRQ space from the
standard MPIC interrupts.  This is how the MSIs work (as an
example).
In case of error interrupts we are depending on the mpic_host_maps
for mapping and interrupt specifier translations. There is no separate
initialization as in case of MSIs. That's the reason I am treating
error interrupts as mpic internal interrupt sources. 
It makes sense to have an allocator for MPIC vectors but it should be a
single allocator shared with the MSI code.

Cheers,
Ben.
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