Re: [PATCH] ret_from_irq adjustment

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On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> While setting up ra "by hand" and transferring control via the jr
> is a reasonable optimization, you're otherwise breaking things for SMTC.
> While the comments are misleading (they accurately described an earlier
> version of the code), the function being called here is ipi_decode(), which
>  needs a pt_regs * in the first argument (hence the copy of the sp), and 
> the pointer to the IPI message descriptor in the second.
> 
> Do you have access to a 34K to test changes to SMTC?  I'd have
> expected this one to have been pretty quickly fatal.

The shakeup of the code by the recent series of pt_regs related cleanups
is pretty massive.  As of last night I only had uniprocessor support
working again.  VSMP and SMTC were broken; actual multi-core CPU not
tested yet.

  Ralf


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