linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] irqchip/gic-v2: Parse and export virtual GIC information

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Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:40:41 +0100
From:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
To:	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Cc:	kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, marc.zyngier@....com,
	fu.wei@...aro.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	wei@...hat.com, al.stone@...aro.org, gg@...mlogic.co.uk,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] irqchip/gic-v2: Parse and export virtual GIC
 information

Hi Christoffer,

On 06/04/2016 18:04, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 12:37:35PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-common.h b/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-common.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..ef34f6f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-common.h
>
> just out of curiosity, why is include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h not
> suitable?

Because arm-gic.h contains the definitions for GICv2 only. At least one 
of them is clashing with the GICv3 ones.

For instance, the function gic_send_sgi is defined statically the in 
GICv3 code, but exported for GICv2.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall