linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: don't unmask disabled irqs when migrating them

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Message-ID: <4DC5F596.4090303@goop.org>
Date:	Sun, 08 May 2011 11:44:54 +1000
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"JBeulich@...ell.com" <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: don't unmask disabled irqs when migrating
 them

On 05/07/2011 12:04 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I'm not really sure why these can't just be an evtchn without an
> associated IRQ since it doesn't really have any interrupt-like
> semantics. Perhaps just a general desire to keep event channels
> abstracted into the core Xen event subsystem with IRQs as the public
> facing API? Jeremy?

It doesn't really need to be an irq.  The main reason was so that it
would appear in /proc/interrupts so I could use the counter as a "number
of times a spinlock was kicked" counter.  That could be exposed in some
other way if being part of the interrupt infrastructure brings too much
baggage with it.

    J
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