Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] SN platform needs platform_irq_to_vector?

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Yes, we'll take a look at it.

John


> 
> Hi Kenji-san
> 
> I believe we need this property, but I am not 100% sure, so I am
> going to forward your patch to our team who maintain the IRQ code
> for Altix.
> 
> Mike, Aaron or John, would one of you have time to take a look at
> this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jes
> 
> 
> Kenji Kaneshige wrote:
> > Hi Jes-san, Russ-san, Christoph-san and SN platform developers,
> > 
> > I glanced over the SN code, and I found SN platform doesn't have SN
> > specific irq_to_vector() function, though it has SN specific
> > local_vector_to_irq() function. I guess it was OK because maybe SN
> > platform depends on irq == vector and old generic irq_to_vector() was
> > just returning the same value as irq.
> > 
> > The irq_to_vector() function, however, has been changed by vector
> > domain support, and currently it can return the different value from
> > irq, even when VECTOR_DOMAIN_PERCPU is not enabled. This can happen
> > when an interrupt thorough I/O SAPIC is unregistered and another
> > interupt is registered. So if my guess (SN platform depends on irq ==
> > vector) is true, something problem might happen on SN platform when
> > PCI hotplugging or driver reloading.
> > 
> > If it is true that SN platform depends on irq == vector, we need to
> > implement SN specific irq_to_vector() that returns the same value as
> > irq, I think. I made sample patches to implement platform specific
> > irq_to_vector() as follows. Note that [PATCH 2/2] is not tested yet
> > because I don't have any SN platform unfortunately.
> > 
> >     [PATCH 1/2] Add base support for platform_irq_to_vector()
> >     [PATCH 2/2] Implement platform_irq_to_vector() for SN
> > 
> > Could you give me comments?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kenji Kaneshige
> > 
> 
> 

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