Re: [PATCH] irq: Remove irqaction.free_on_release

[Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>]

But reasoning behind c/s 20153, which introduced it, still applies? Callers
using setup_irq() don't want their passed-in irqaction to be xfree()ed?

 -- Keir

On 08/10/2012 14:09, "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:

> It is always set to 1, and only checked on some of the codepaths which free an
> irqaction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> 
> --
> This patch does touch common code as well as x86 and arm architectures,
> so probably needs quite a few acks.
> 
> diff -r 5fbdbf585f5f -r 37f1afbec80b xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/gic.c
> @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ void __init release_irq(unsigned int irq
>      /* Wait to make sure it's not being used on another CPU */
>      do { smp_mb(); } while ( desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS );
>  
> -    if (action && action->free_on_release)
> +    if ( action )
>          xfree(action);
>  }
>  
> diff -r 5fbdbf585f5f -r 37f1afbec80b xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/irq.c
> @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ int __init request_irq(unsigned int irq,
>      action->handler = handler;
>      action->name = devname;
>      action->dev_id = dev_id;
> -    action->free_on_release = 1;
>  
>      retval = setup_irq(irq, action);
>      if (retval)
> diff -r 5fbdbf585f5f -r 37f1afbec80b xen/arch/x86/irq.c
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/irq.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/irq.c
> @@ -952,7 +952,6 @@ int __init request_irq(unsigned int irq,
>      action->handler = handler;
>      action->name = devname;
>      action->dev_id = dev_id;
> -    action->free_on_release = 1;
>  
>      retval = setup_irq(irq, action);
>      if (retval)
> @@ -979,7 +978,7 @@ void __init release_irq(unsigned int irq
>      /* Wait to make sure it's not being used on another CPU */
>      do { smp_mb(); } while ( desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS );
>  
> -    if (action && action->free_on_release)
> +    if ( action )
>          xfree(action);
>  }
>  
> diff -r 5fbdbf585f5f -r 37f1afbec80b xen/include/xen/irq.h
> --- a/xen/include/xen/irq.h
> +++ b/xen/include/xen/irq.h
> @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ struct irqaction {
>      void (*handler)(int, void *, struct cpu_user_regs *);
>      const char *name;
>      void *dev_id;
> -    bool_t free_on_release;
>  };
>  
>  /*