linux-kernel - Re: [patch 20/47] x86: Remove useless reinitialization of irq descriptors

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Date:	Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:21:30 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [patch 20/47] x86: Remove useless reinitialization of irq descriptors

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:

> The descriptors are already initialized in exaclty this way.

They aren't only status is initialized exactly that way.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c |   17 ++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ int vector_used_by_percpu_irq(unsigned i
>  
>  void __init init_ISA_irqs(void)
>  {
> +	struct irq_chip *chip = legacy_pic->chip;
> +	const char *name = chip->name;
>  	int i;
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)
> @@ -107,19 +109,8 @@ void __init init_ISA_irqs(void)
>  #endif
>  	legacy_pic->init(0);
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * 16 old-style INTA-cycle interrupts:
> -	 */

Why delete the comment here?

> -	for (i = 0; i < legacy_pic->nr_legacy_irqs; i++) {
> -		struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(i);
> -
> -		desc->status = IRQ_DISABLED;
> -		desc->action = NULL;
> -		desc->depth = 1;
> -
> -		set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(i, &i8259A_chip,
> -					      handle_level_irq, "XT");
> -	}
> +	for (i = 0; i < legacy_pic->nr_legacy_irqs; i++)
> +		set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(i, chip, handle_level_irq, name);
>  }
>  
>  void __init init_IRQ(void)

Eric
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