Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 09/14] MIPS: add support for generic SMP IPI support

[Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>]

On 10/13/2015 02:48 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
>>   
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_IPI
>> +void generic_smp_send_ipi_single(int cpu, unsigned int action)
> Please use a mips name space. This suggests that it s completely
> generic, which is not true.
>
>> +{
>> +	generic_smp_send_ipi_mask(cpumask_of(cpu), action);
>> +}
>> +
>> +void generic_smp_send_ipi_mask(const struct cpumask *mask, unsigned int action)
> Ditto.

OK.

>> +{
>> +	unsigned long flags;
>> +	unsigned int core;
>> +	int cpu;
>> +	struct ipi_mask ipi_mask;
>> +
>> +	ipi_mask.cpumask = ((struct cpumask *)mask)->bits;
> We have accessors for that. Hmm, so for this case we must make the
> ipi_mask different:
>
> struct ipi_mask {
> 	unsigned int	nbits;
> 	bool		global;
> 	union {
>         	     struct cpumask *mask;
> 	     unsigned long  cpu_bitmap[];
> 	};
> };
>

Right. This looks cleaner for sure. Not sure why I haven't though about 
this.

Thanks,
Qais