netdev - Re: Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:48:12 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	NetDEV list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86: get back 15 vectors

[Adding Suresh to the Cc: list]

On 01/04/2010 11:35 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> so we can use [0x10, 0x1f]
> 
> sth like this?
> 

No!!!

[0x10, 0x1f] is reserved for exceptions.  We can probably get away with
stealing *one* vector... presumably at the end (0x1f).  However, we can
absolutely not use the whole block: 0x10-0x13 is occupied by exceptions
we already have OS support for (#MF, #AC, #MC, and #XM), and it's pretty
much guaranteed we'll have more coming.  However, growth is quite slow
and since this is a kernel-internal vector (not accessible to user
space) it is not creating an API.

In other words, we could change FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR to 0x1f, and use
it for IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR.  Then use 0x20..0x2f for the legacy vectors.

	-hpa
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