From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator.
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:05:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC60D3A.1020201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC60CB7.3070005@goop.org>
On 10/25/2010 04:03 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> What? Why? How? Surely if we're asking the irq subsystem to allocate
> us an irq, it will return a fresh never-before-used (and certainly not
> shared) irq? Shared irqs only make sense if multiple devices are
> actually sharing, say, a wire on the board.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
I think the number is not necessarily "never before used", but rather
"not currently used".
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 23:05 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <tip-77dff1c755c3218691e95e7e38ee14323b35dbdb@git.kernel.org>
2010-10-16 0:15 ` [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16 0:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16 0:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16 0:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-16 2:01 ` [Xen-devel] " H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-16 2:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-25 16:22 ` [PATCH 00/05] xen: events: cleanups after irq core improvements (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling) Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] xen: events: use irq_alloc_desc(_at) instead of open-coding an IRQ allocator Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 17:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-25 18:02 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 8:15 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 19:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-26 19:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-26 20:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 23:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-25 23:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-26 14:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 16:44 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-26 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-28 12:43 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-28 12:43 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-28 12:57 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2010-10-28 13:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-10-29 15:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-29 16:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-28 16:22 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-28 16:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] xen: events: turn irq_info constructors into initialiser functions Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: events: push setup of irq<->{evtchn,pirq} maps into irq_info init functions Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: events: push setup of irq<->{evtchn, pirq} " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-25 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] xen: events: dynamically allocate irq info structures Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 16:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-25 16:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] xen: events: use per-cpu variable for cpu_evtchn_mask Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-10-26 14:50 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 14:50 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-25 23:03 ` [PATCH 00/05] xen: events: cleanups after irq core improvements (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling) Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-10-26 7:25 ` Ian Campbell
2010-10-26 7:25 ` [PATCH 00/05] xen: events: cleanups after irq core improvements (Was: " Ian Campbell
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