From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] irqchip: GICv3: set non-percpu irqs status with _IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:32:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55ED83D2.90809@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55EBD59B.4030405@linux.intel.com>
On 06/09/15 06:56, Jiang Liu wrote:
> On 2015/9/6 12:23, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>> Use irq_settings_set_move_pcntxt() helper irqs status with
>> _IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT. So that it can do set affinity when calling
>> irq_set_affinity_locked().
> Hi Yingliang,
> We could only set _IRQ_MOVE_PCNTCT flag to enable migrating
> IRQ in process context if your hardware platform supports atomically
> change IRQ configuration. Not sure whether that's true for GICv3.
> If GICv3 doesn't support atomically change irq configuration, this
> change may cause trouble.
I think it boils down to what exactly "process context" means here. If
this means "we do not need to mask the interrupt" while moving it, then
it should be fine (the GIC architecture guarantees that a pending
interrupt will be migrated).
Is there any other requirement for this flag?
Thanks,
M.
--
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-06 4:23 [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] arm/arm64: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 4:23 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/4] genirq: Introduce irq_settings_set_move_pcntxt() helper Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 22:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-07 1:49 ` Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 4:23 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] irqchip: GICv3: set non-percpu irqs status with _IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 5:56 ` Jiang Liu
2015-09-07 2:03 ` Yang Yingliang
2015-09-07 12:32 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2015-09-07 13:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-07 14:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-09-07 14:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-09-07 16:33 ` Jiang Liu
2015-09-06 4:23 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/4] genirq: rename config GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ to GENERIC_IRQ_MIGRATION Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 4:23 ` [RFC PATCH v1 4/4] arm/arm64: fix a migrating irq bug when hotplug cpu Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 5:55 ` Jiang Liu
2015-09-07 2:33 ` Yang Yingliang
2015-09-06 8:07 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] " Jiang Liu
2015-09-07 2:54 ` Yang Yingliang
2015-09-07 1:54 ` Jiang Liu
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