linux-kernel - [PATCH] asm-generic: drop HARDIRQ

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Message-Id: <200906142243.32409.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:43:31 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] asm-generic: drop HARDIRQ_BITS definition from hardirq.h

linux/hardirq.h contains a fallback for HARDIRQ_BITS to 10
if it's not defined, so it is pointless to define a default
of 8 in asm/hardirq.h. There does not seem to be a good
reason why an architecture would want to limit the number
of hardirqs this way.

Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 include/asm-generic/hardirq.h |   13 -------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
On Sunday 14 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> is there any downsides to using a "too large" value ?  i.e. if my
> system has less than 256, does it make any difference at all if it's
> set to 10 ?
> -mike

None that I know of. I'm queuing this patch in my asm-generic tree now,
unless Steven or someone else has a better idea.

	Arnd <><

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/hardirq.h b/include/asm-generic/hardirq.h
index 3d5d2c9..23bb4da 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/hardirq.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/hardirq.h
@@ -11,19 +11,6 @@ typedef struct {
 
 #include <linux/irq_cpustat.h>	/* Standard mappings for irq_cpustat_t above */
 
-#ifndef HARDIRQ_BITS
-#define HARDIRQ_BITS	8
-#endif
-
-/*
- * The hardirq mask has to be large enough to have
- * space for potentially all IRQ sources in the system
- * nesting on a single CPU:
- */
-#if (1 << HARDIRQ_BITS) < NR_IRQS
-# error HARDIRQ_BITS is too low!
-#endif
-
 #ifndef ack_bad_irq
 static inline void ack_bad_irq(unsigned int irq)
 {
-- 
1.6.3.1

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