Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbUIHM3p (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:29:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261711AbUIHM3o (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:29:44 -0400 Received: from host-65-117-135-105.timesys.com ([65.117.135.105]:26075 "EHLO kartuli.timesys") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262062AbUIHM33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:29:29 -0400 Message-ID: <413EFB11.2000507@timesys.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 08:29:05 -0400 From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Wood , Andrey Panin Subject: Re: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14 References: <20040908120613.GA16916@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20040908120613.GA16916@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1437 Lines: 37 Ingo Molnar wrote: >the attached patch moves generic hardirq handling bits to >kernel/hardirq.c. It is not a replacement for any of the existing IRQ >functions, so architectures can use their existing hardirq code in an >unmodified form. It is a library of generic functions that an >architecture can make use of optionally. > >I've fully converted x86's irq.c to use the new functions, and Scott >Wood has done the same for ppc/ppc64 as well. (the arch-ppc* changes are >not included in this patch because i couldnt test them myself in the >current port of this patch - but the generic bits were tested on ppc.) > > In the interests of full provinence, the TimeSys patches are based on work by Andrey Panin. >i have test-compiled and test-booted the patch on x86 and x64, on SMP && >PREEMPT and !SMP && !PREEMPT kernels. x64 needed only a single change (a >setup_irq() prototype) to work fine, which makes me believe that the >patch will not break other architectures either. > >(a more complex version of this patch has been tested for weeks as part >of the voluntary-preempt patches as well.) > > Ingo > > -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell's sig - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/