linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [REVIEW] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0)

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Message-Id: <1174335720.13341.588.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:21:59 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fastboot@...ts.osdl.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REVIEW] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0)

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:13 +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> That requires changes in Linux-generic files. The default of timer_irq is 0, so
> the patch doesn't break i386/x86_64. However, other platforms also may also
> have a timer interrupt non-equal to zero, so they can also use the new
> set_timer_interrupt() function.
> 
> The patch is against 2.6.21-rc4. Please give me your input how to improve
> the way it's done if you don't like the way I did the change. irqpoll is
> required to work with kdump in some situations and that's why I discovered
> that kdump doesn't work on that platform (HP rx2660).
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>



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