linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARC: [plat-eznps] remove IPI clear from SMP operations

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Message-ID: <cdb487f1-b23b-1b01-e4a5-be5a3714055a@synopsys.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:54:09 -0800
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:     Noam Camus <noamca@...lanox.com>
CC:     "linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARC: [plat-eznps] remove IPI clear from SMP operations

On 11/06/2016 11:34 PM, Noam Camus wrote:
> From: Noam Camus <noamca@...lanox.com>
>
> Generic IRQ mechanism is already acknowledge the IPI IRQ.
> Doing this once more time in IPI handler is not needed.

Changelog can be improved !
Generic IRQ mechanism can't ack the irq. The NPQ irqchip driver does this for all
irqs already - so no special handling is needed for IPI in NPS case.

-Vineet
>
> Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  arch/arc/plat-eznps/smp.c |    6 ------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arc/plat-eznps/smp.c b/arch/arc/plat-eznps/smp.c
> index 5e901f8..56a4c85 100644
> --- a/arch/arc/plat-eznps/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arc/plat-eznps/smp.c
> @@ -140,16 +140,10 @@ static void eznps_init_per_cpu(int cpu)
>  	mtm_enable_core(cpu);
>  }
>  
> -static void eznps_ipi_clear(int irq)
> -{
> -	write_aux_reg(CTOP_AUX_IACK, 1 << irq);
> -}
> -
>  struct plat_smp_ops plat_smp_ops = {
>  	.info		= smp_cpuinfo_buf,
>  	.init_early_smp	= eznps_init_cpumasks,
>  	.cpu_kick	= eznps_smp_wakeup_cpu,
>  	.ipi_send	= eznps_ipi_send,
>  	.init_per_cpu	= eznps_init_per_cpu,
> -	.ipi_clear	= eznps_ipi_clear,
>  };