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* [PATCH 0/25] Decouple IRQ issues (MSI, i386, x86_64, ia64)
@ 2006-06-20 22:24 Eric W. Biederman
  2006-06-20 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/25] irq: Convert the move_irq flag from a 32bit word to a single bit Eric W. Biederman
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 50+ messages in thread
From: Eric W. Biederman @ 2006-06-20 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-acpi, linux-pci, discuss, Ingo Molnar,
	Thomas Gleixner, Andi Kleen, Natalie Protasevich, Len Brown,
	Kimball Murray, Brice Goglin, Greg Lindahl, Dave Olson,
	Jeff Garzik, Greg KH, Grant Grundler, bibo,mao, Rajesh Shah,
	Mark Maule, Jesper Juhl, Shaohua Li, Matthew Wilcox,
	Michael S. Tsirkin, Ashok Raj, Randy Dunlap


The following patchset is against 2.6.17-rc6-mm2.
It was the only easy place I could get everyones work who has been
touching relevant code.

The primary aim of this patch is to remove maintenances problems caused
by the irq infrastructure.  The two big issues I address are an
artificially small cap on the number of irqs, and that MSI assumes
vector == irq.  My primary focus is on x86_64 but I have touched
other architectures where necessary to keep them from breaking.

- To increase the number of irqs I modify the code to look at
  the (cpu, vector) pair instead of just  looking at the vector.

  With a large number of irqs available systems with a large irq
  count no longer need to compress their irq numbers to fit.
  Removing a lot of brittle special cases.

  For acpi guys the result is that irq == gsi.

- Addressing the fact that MSI assumes irq == vector takes a few more
  patches.  But suffice it to say when I am done none of the generic
  irq code even knows what a vector is.

In quick testing on a large Unisys x86_64 machine we stumbled over at
least one driver that assumed that NR_IRQS could always fit into an 8
bit number.  This driver is clearly buggy today.  But this has become
a class of bugs that it is now much easier to hit. 

I've done my best but if this patchset wasn't perfect it won't
surprise me.  But I'm pretty certain I have succeeded in decoupling
any fixes should be small and well contained.

Eric

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2006-06-20 22:24 [PATCH 0/25] Decouple IRQ issues (MSI, i386, x86_64, ia64) Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/25] irq: Convert the move_irq flag from a 32bit word to a single bit Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28   ` [PATCH 2/25] irq: Add moved_masked_irq Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28     ` [PATCH 3/25] x86_64 irq: Reenable migrating irqs to other cpus Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28       ` [PATCH 4/25] msi: Simplify msi enable and disable Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28         ` [PATCH 5/25] msi: Make the msi boolean tests return either 0 or 1 Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28           ` [PATCH 6/25] msi: Implement helper functions read_msi_msg and write_msi_msg Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28             ` [PATCH 7/25] msi: Refactor the msi_ops Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28               ` [PATCH 8/25] msi: Simplify the msi irq limit policy Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                 ` [PATCH 9/25] irq: Add a dynamic irq creation API Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                   ` [PATCH 10/25] ia64 irq: Dynamic irq support Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                     ` [PATCH 11/25] i386 " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                       ` [PATCH 12/25] x86_64 " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                         ` [PATCH 13/25] msi: Make the msi code irq based and not vector based Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                           ` [PATCH 14/25] x86_64 irq: Move msi message composition into io_apic.c Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                             ` [PATCH 15/25] i386 " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                               ` [PATCH 16/25] msi: Only build msi-apic.c on ia64 Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                 ` [PATCH 17/25] x86_64 irq: Remove the msi assumption that irq == vector Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                   ` [PATCH 18/25] i386 " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                     ` [PATCH 19/25] irq: Remove msi hacks Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                       ` [PATCH 20/25] irq: Generalize the check for HARDIRQ_BITS Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                         ` [PATCH 21/25] x86_64 irq: Make the external irq handlers report their vector, not the irq number Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                           ` [PATCH 22/25] x86_64 irq: make vector_irq per cpu Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                             ` [PATCH 23/25] x86_64 irq: Kill gsi_irq_sharing Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                               ` [PATCH 24/25] x86_64 irq: Kill irq compression Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:28                                                 ` [PATCH 25/25] irq: Document what an IRQ is Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21  1:50                       ` [PATCH 11/25] i386 irq: Dynamic irq support Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  2:21                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21  2:27                           ` Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21 14:07                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 23:56                   ` [PATCH 9/25] irq: Add a dynamic irq creation API Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  1:01                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21  1:33                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-21  1:41                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-21  1:36                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-21  1:28                 ` [PATCH 8/25] msi: Simplify the msi irq limit policy Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  2:46                 ` Roland Dreier
2006-06-21  3:48                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21  1:18               ` [PATCH 7/25] msi: Refactor the msi_ops Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  1:04             ` [PATCH 6/25] msi: Implement helper functions read_msi_msg and write_msi_msg Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  1:43               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-20 22:45           ` [PATCH 5/25] msi: Make the msi boolean tests return either 0 or 1 Jeff Garzik
2006-06-21  0:44         ` [PATCH 4/25] msi: Simplify msi enable and disable Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  1:19           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21  0:30 ` [PATCH 0/25] Decouple IRQ issues (MSI, i386, x86_64, ia64) Rajesh Shah
2006-06-21  1:07   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21 14:10   ` [PATCH] Decouple IRQ issues (fix i386 compile issues) Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-21 10:24 ` [PATCH 0/25] Decouple IRQ issues (MSI, i386, x86_64, ia64) Ingo Molnar
2006-06-21 16:25   ` Greg KH
2006-06-22  3:55     ` Eric W. Biederman

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