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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 13:03:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/jcore: fix lost per-cpu interrupts
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On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> Ideas for improvement are welcome -- for example the
> irq_is_percpu(irq_desc_get_irq(desc)) thing looks rather silly but I

See the other mail.

> didn't see a better way without poking through abstractions -- but
> overall I think this both solves the timer stall issue that I wasted
> other people's time on, and addresses the concerns about the J-Core
> AIC driver being oblivious to whether an irq is per-cpu.

You could put that knowledge into the device tree so you can decide at
mapping time whether it is per cpu or not.

Thanks,

	tglx