From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: julien.grall@linaro.org (Julien Grall) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:41:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present In-Reply-To: <1424258866.27775.15.camel@citrix.com> References: <1423722898-16110-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <1423722898-16110-2-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <1424258866.27775.15.camel@citrix.com> Message-ID: <54E47A80.9050208@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Ian, On 18/02/2015 11:27, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 06:34 +0000, Julien Grall wrote: >> The function irq_of_parse_and_map returns 0 when the IRQ is not found. >> >> Furthermore xen_events_irq is only read when the CPU is bring up, so >> it's not necessary to use the attribute __read_mostly. > > Part of the purpose of __read_mostly is to move such things out of > sharing cachelines with other more hot read/write things, as much as it > is to group all the "read only" things together. Hmmm... You are right. I didn't understand this macro like that. I will resend the series with this patch drop and add Ard's patch [1]. Regards, [1] https://patches.linaro.org/44633/ -- Julien Grall