Re: [PATCH] irqchip: mips-gic: Avoid rerouting timer IRQs for smp-cmp

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Hi James,

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 7:38 AM, James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit e9de688dac65 ("irqchip: mips-gic: Support local interrupts")
> changed the GIC irqchip driver so that all local interrupts were routed
> to the same CPU pin used for external interrupts. Unfortunately this
> causes a regression when smp-cmp is used. The CPUs are started by the
> bootloader and put in a timer based waiting poll loop, but when their
> timer interrupts are rerouted to a different IRQ pin which is not
> unmasked they never wake up.
>
> Since smp-cmp support is deprecated and everybody who was using it
> should be switching to smp-cps which brings up the secondary CPUs
> without bootloader assistance, I've gone for the simple fix which can be
> easily removed once smp-cmp is removed, rather than a fully generic fix.
>
> In __gic_init() the local GIC_VPE_TIMER_MAP register is read to find the
> boot-time routing of the local timer interrupt, and a chained handler is
> added to that CPU pin as well as the normal one.
>
> Fixes: e9de688dac65 ("irqchip: mips-gic: Support local interrupts")
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>





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