On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Qais Yousef wrote: > --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c > +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c > @@ -2013,7 +2013,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_set_irqchip_state); > struct ipi_mapping *irq_alloc_ipi_mapping(unsigned int nr_cpus) > { > struct ipi_mapping *map; > - int i; That one wants to be folded back into the patch which adds it. > + > +/** > + * __irq_desc_send_ipi - send an IPI to target CPU(s) > + * @irq_desc: pointer to irq_desc of the IRQ > + * @dest: dest CPU(s), must be the same or a subset of the mask passed to > + * irq_reserve_ipi() > + * > + * Sends an IPI to all cpus in dest mask. > + * This function is meant to be used from arch code to save the need to do > + * desc lookup that happens in the generic irq_send_ipi(). > + * > + * Returns zero on success and negative error number on failure. > + */ > +int __irq_desc_send_ipi(struct irq_desc *desc, const struct ipi_mask *dest) > +{ > + struct irq_data *data = irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc); > + struct irq_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data); > + > + if (!chip || !chip->irq_send_ipi) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + if (dest->nbits > data->common->ipi_mask->nbits) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + /* > + * Do not validate the mask for IPIs marked global. These are > + * regular IPIs so we can avoid the operation as their target > + * mask is the cpu_possible_mask. > + */ > + if (!data->common->ipi_mask->global) { > + if (dest->global) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + if (!bitmap_subset(dest->cpu_bitmap, > + data->common->ipi_mask->cpu_bitmap, > + dest->nbits)) > + return -EINVAL; > + } else { > + if (!dest->global) > + return -EINVAL; We might want to add sanity checks here as well, but you can leave it as is for now. This can move to ipi.c as well. Thanks, tglx