linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] arm: Convert to GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI

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Date:   Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:28:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de
CC:     linux@...linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@....com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, jonas@...thpole.se,
        stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi, shorne@...il.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        openrisc@...ts.librecores.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] arm: Convert to GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:07:35 PDT (-0700), tglx@...utronix.de wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
>> This converts the ARM port to use the recently added
>> GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER, which is essentially just a copy of ARM's
>> existhing MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER.  The only changes are:
>>
>> * handle_arch_irq is now defined in a generic C file instead of an
>>   arm-specific assembly file.
>> * handle_arch_irq is not marked as __ro_after_init.
>
> Why? What prevents the generic implementation from doing so?

Sorry, I guess that should have said "handle_arch_irq was not marked as
__ro_after_init".  The patch set has __ro_after_init for the generic
implementation, which was not the case for the arm version.