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

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Message-ID: <561D19D7.4060004@imgtec.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:48:55 +0100
From:	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 10/13/2015 02:53 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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 ....
>
>


Will do. Thanks a lot for the review and all the pointers. I need to 
revive the DT binding discussion now, in the proper list this time.

Thanks,
Qais
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