linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] ACPI, PCI, IRQ: assign ISA IRQ directly during early boot stages

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Date:   Sun, 23 Oct 2016 23:22:02 -0400
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, rjw@...ysocki.net, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        ravikanth.nalla@....com, linux@...nbow-software.org,
        timur@...eaurora.org, cov@...eaurora.org, jcm@...hat.com,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        agross@...eaurora.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, wim@....tudelft.nl,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/3] ACPI, PCI, IRQ: assign ISA IRQ directly during
 early boot stages

On 10/20/2016 9:39 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> These API need to bypass the acpi_irq_get_penalty function.
> I don't mind this patch, but the changelog doesn't tell me what's
> broken and why we need this fix.  Apparently acpi_irq_get_penalty()
> doesn't work before ACPI is initialized, but I don't see *why* it
> wouldn't work.

I'll update the commit message as you suggested. The code doesn't work
if we apply PATCH V4 2/3 + PATCH V4 3/3 without PATCH V4 1/3 since
the caller is going to end up calling get_penalty function while ACPI
is not initialized. This happened during the debug of this regression.

-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.