linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 02/33] genirq: Add irq_alloc_reserved

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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:05:01 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/33] genirq: Add irq_alloc_reserved_desc()

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> As I said before irq_reserve_irq() is a misnomer and a
>> misconception. Of course this needs to be fixed as well.
>>
>> And you cannot just blindly change it because !SPARSE can use the
>> allocation. We are not creating stupid corner cases just to support
>> your sloppyness. Its not rocket science to do it the right way.
>>
>> That said, it might be worthwhile to get rid of the !SPARSE case
>> completely. That would probably make quite some stuff simpler.
>
> So we need to make all arches support SPARSE_IRQ at first?
>
> Now we have arm, arm64, c6x, metag, powerpc, sh, x86 support SPARSE_IRQ.
>
> The following  are not with SPARSE_IRQ yet:
> alpha, arc, avr32, blackfin, cris, frv, hexagon, m32r, m68k, microblaze,
> mips, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, s390, score, sparc, tile, um,
> unicore32, xtensa.

or add calling irq_alloc_desc_at() before irq_set_chip... for !SPARSE_IRQ.

Please check attached partial patch if you like it.

If you are happy with that, I will split it into pieces and add other
irq_alloc_desc_at()
calling.

Thanks

Yinghai

View attachment "kill_irq_reserve_irqs.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (5699 bytes)