linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] genirq: Rename IRQ_HIDDEN to IRQ

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Message-ID: <jhj5z5sugl7.mognet@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:18:44 +0000
From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] genirq: Rename IRQ_HIDDEN to IRQ_IPI


Hi Marc,

On 24/11/20 14:14, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> IRQ_HIDDEN was probably the wrong name, so let's rename it to IRQ_IPI,
> which more accurately describe an IPI with special arch code handling.
>

>From the (new) name I would expect this to be set for IRQs requested via
irq_reserve_ipi(), but that wouldn't be correct: MIPs uses that interface,
but doesn't have our arch_show_interrupts() IPI faffery.

With that in mind, perhaps the current name isn't so bad...