From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:21:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REVIEW] Fix irqpoll on IA64 (timer interrupt != 0) Message-Id: <1174335720.13341.588.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20070319181336.GC12628@strauss.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20070319181336.GC12628@strauss.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bernhard Walle Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, Ingo Molnar On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:13 +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > That requires changes in Linux-generic files. The default of timer_irq is 0, so > the patch doesn't break i386/x86_64. However, other platforms also may also > have a timer interrupt non-equal to zero, so they can also use the new > set_timer_interrupt() function. > > The patch is against 2.6.21-rc4. Please give me your input how to improve > the way it's done if you don't like the way I did the change. irqpoll is > required to work with kdump in some situations and that's why I discovered > that kdump doesn't work on that platform (HP rx2660). > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner