Re: [PATCH 00/38] irqchip: mips-gic: Cleanup & optimisation

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Hi Paul,

On 13/08/17 05:36, Paul Burton wrote:
> This series cleans up the MIPS Global Interrupt Controller (GIC) driver
> somewhat. It moves us towards using a header in a similar vein to the
> ones we have for the MIPS Coherence Manager (CM) & Cluster Power
> Controller (CPC) which allows us to access the GIC outside of the
> irqchip driver - something beneficial already for the clocksource &
> clock event driver, and which will be beneficial for further drivers
> (eg. one for the GIC watchdog timer) and for multi-cluster work. Using
> this header is also beneficial for consistency & code-sharing.
> 
> In addition to cleanups the series also optimises the driver in various
> ways, including by using a per-CPU variable for pcpu_masks & removing
> the need to read the GIC_SH_MASK_* registers when decoding interrupts in
> gic_handle_shared_int().
> 
> This series requires my "[PATCH 00/19] MIPS: Initial multi-cluster
> support" series to be applied first.
I went through the whole series, and didn't spot anything bad (the
couple of nits I raised can either be fixed at a later time or as a
fixup on top of what you have).

Given that this has a number of dependencies (your multicluster series),
how do you want to get this merged?

Thanks,

	M.
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