Re: [PATCH v2] x86, ioapic: Skip looking for ioapic overrides when ioapics are not present

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:

> 
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
> > > @@ -3789,6 +3789,10 @@ int acpi_get_override_irq(u32 gsi, int *trigger, int *polarity)
> > >  {
> > >  	int ioapic, pin, idx;
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> > > +	if (acpi_irq_model != ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_IOAPIC)
> > > +		return -1;
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > That #ifdef is very ugly. Please introduce a suitable helper function in 
> > arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h - acpi_irq_ioapic_model() or so, which could be 
> > used like this:
> > 
> > 	if (!acpi_irq_ioapic_model())
> > 		return -1;
> > 
> > And would be defined in the !CONFIG_ACPI case as well.
> 
> It would be better to compile _none_ of acpi_get_override_irq() for !ACPI.

Yeah, agreed - so just move the function into acpi.c and provide an inline stub 
in acpi.h for the !ACPI case.

Note: find_irq_entry() would have to be exported from io_apic.c in this case, 
renamed to ioapic_find_irq_entry() or so - and a stub provided for the !IO_APIC 
case.

Thanks,

	Ingo