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Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:24:22 +0800
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.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
> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@...utronix.de]
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 8:37 PM
>
> On Mon, 9 May 2011, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 9 May 2011, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > yes, with your patch this issue disappears, since you explicitly
> > > make mask/unmask as a nop for xen_percpu_chip, which effectively
> > > avoids them from undesired unmask when doing the migration. Though
> > > it works, it's not intuitive as to me it's an workaround to make Xen chip
> implementation adapting to specific fixup_irqs logic.
> >
> > I have been tring to follow the example of existing supported drivers.
> > The only x86 driver I could find that uses handle_percpu_irq is uv_irq
> > that does exatly the same thing.
>
> Which is a good enough argument to make that change at the common code
> level instead of having fancy workarounds here and there.
>
So Thomas, what's your suggestion to continue here? Is my original patch to skip
percpu irq in common code a good option to go, or you want a cleaner code in
other form? Once it's clear I'll discuss with Stefano e.g. possibly merge with his
cleanup patch series. :-)
Thanks
Kevin
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