linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 00/14] Implement generic IPI support mechanism

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1510131550020.25029@nanos>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:53:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jason@...edaemon.net,
	marc.zyngier@....com, jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 00/14] Implement generic IPI support mechanism

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:

> This series is based on Linus tree. I couldn't compile test it
> because MIPS compilation was broken due to other reasons. I expect
> some brokeness because of the introduction of struct irq_common_data
> which is not present on the 4.1 tree I was testing my code on before
> porting it to Linus tip. I will fix these issues and introduce
> proper accessors for accessing struct ipi_mask given that the
> concept is approved.

Please base it on 4.1-rc5 + irq/core.
 
>   irq: add new IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAGS_IPI

The proper prefix for the core parts is 'genirq:'. Please start the
sentence after the prefix with an uppercase letter

>   irq: add GENERIC_IRQ_IPI Kconfig symbol
>   irq: add new struct ipi_mask
>   irq: add a new irq_send_ipi() to irq_chip
>   irq: add struct ipi_mask to irq_data
>   irq: add struct ipi_mapping and its helper functions
>   irq: add a new generic IPI reservation code to irq core
>   irq: implement irq_send_ipi
>   MIPS: add support for generic SMP IPI support
>   MIPS: make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions
>   MIPS: delete smp-gic.c
>   irqchip: mips-gic: add a IPI hierarchy domain

Please make that

irqchip/mips-gic: Add ....

Thanks,

	tglx
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