linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/5] irqchip: armanda: Sanitize set_irq

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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:55:50 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
cc:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] irqchip: armanda: Sanitize set_irq_affinity()

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On 07/03/2014 18:17, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > It might be the readback of the routing register. I don't have the
> > datasheet of this.
> 
> Sorry for the delay, I was on vacation without the hardware to test it.
> 
> Indeed it was the readback of the routing register. (Unfortunately the
> datasheet was not yet publicly available :(  ). In your patch by replacing
> the line:
> 
> writel(mask, main_int_base + ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CTL(hwirq));
> 
> by the following ones:
> 
> reg = readl(main_int_base + ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CTL(hwirq));
> reg = (reg & (~ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CPU_MASK)) | mask;
> writel(reg, main_int_base + ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CTL(hwirq));
> 
> with
> #define ARMADA_370_XP_INT_SOURCE_CPU_MASK	0xF
> 
> Then it worked.
> 
> About masking with the online CPU in the original code, the purpose
> was to allow sharing the SoC with an other OS by doing AMP. This feature
> is part of the Marvell version of the kernel.
> The idea was to bring this latter in the vanilla kernel, but I am not sure
> that all the part needed for AMP are acceptable for mainline. So I can add
> it back later when we will need it.

Right.

So are you ok with that patch (including your change) ? If you send me
tested/acked-by i'll route it for 3.15

Thanks,

	tglx
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