On 08/17/14 17:17, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > >> I have no problem with changing gic_raise_softirq() to use a different >> lock, which gic_migrate_target(), and gic_set_affinity() can also use. >> There's no need for horrid locking here, because the only thing we're >> protecting is gic_map[] and the write to the register to trigger an >> IPI - and nothing using gic_arch_extn has any business knowing about >> SGIs. >> >> No need for these crappy sgi_map_lock() macros and all the ifdeffery. > Those macros are there only to conditionalize the locking in > gic_raise_softirq() because no locking what so ever is needed there when > gic_migrate_target() is configured out. I suggested the macros to cut > down on the #ifdefery in the code. Ok I can resend with the sgi lock around the gic_cpu_map updating code. Let's see how v5 goes. -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
