linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7] ACPI, PCI, irq: support IRQ numbers greater than 256

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Message-ID: <565DCB1D.7030308@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:30:21 -0500
From:	Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
	cov@...eaurora.org, jcm@...hat.com,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7] ACPI, PCI, irq: support IRQ numbers greater than 256

On 12/1/2015 10:30 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Not sure whether you saw my earlier response about this:
> 
Sorry, I missed it.

>   ACPI_MAX_IRQS is only used to size the acpi_irq_penalty[] table (and
>   after your patch, to validate IRQ numbers from ACPI).  But I think
>   the acpi_irq_penalty[] table is a design we've outgrown.  I *think*
>   we only care about penalties for IRQs 0-15, so even a 256-entry
>   table is more than we need.
> 
>   If we could make acpi_irq_penalty[] a fixed size of 16 entries or
>   replace it with a linked list, I think we could get rid of
>   ACPI_MAX_IRQS completely.  Then the validation checks you add below
>   would be unnecessary and we could handle any interrupt number
>   supplied from ACPI.
> 
> I think it would be really nice to get rid of the arbitrary maximum
> interrupt ID (1020).

Let me look and do some testing. I'll try to do less damage by using a
link list rather than 16 and try to replicate the existing functionality.

-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a
Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
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