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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	huhb@lemote.com, yanh@lemote.com, Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>,
	zhangfx@lemote.com, liujl@lemote.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -queue v0 4/6] [loongson] add basic fuloong2f support
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:30:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091106083042.GA17723@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257485984.2299.21.camel@falcon.domain.org>

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 01:39:44PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:

> > > +	if ((LOONGSON_INTISR & LOONGSON_INTEN) & LOONGSON_INT_BIT_INT0) {
> > > +		imr = inb(0x21) | (inb(0xa1) << 8);
> > > +		isr = inb(0x20) | (inb(0xa0) << 8);
> > > +		isr &= ~0x4;	/* irq2 for cascade */
> > > +		isr &= ~imr;
> > > +		irq = ffs(isr) - 1;
> > > +	}
> > 
> > Any reason why you're not using i8259_irq() from <asm/i8259.h> here?
> > That function not only gets the locking right, it also minimizes the number
> > of accesses to the i8259 - which even on modern silicon can be stuningly
> > slow.

> Just asked Yanhua, He told me there is a bug in cs5536, if using the
> i8259_irq() directly, we can not get the irq. and just tried it, the
> kernel hang on booting.

Wonderful.  Even 30 years after it was built there are still new i8259
bugs :-)

This is probably worth a comment in the code.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1257325319.git.wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
2009-11-04  9:04 ` [PATCH -queue v0 1/6] [loongson] add basic loongson-2f support Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04 10:28   ` Arnaud Patard
2009-11-04 11:04     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04 11:19       ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-04 15:23         ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04 20:15           ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-05  1:39             ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-05  8:45               ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-04 11:36       ` Arnaud Patard
2009-11-05  9:18   ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-05  9:48     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-05 10:28       ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-05 11:00         ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04  9:05 ` [PATCH -queue v0 2/6] [loongson] oprofile: avoid do_IRQ for perfcounter when the interrupt is from bonito Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04  9:05 ` [PATCH -queue v0 3/6] [loongson] add basic cs5536 vsm support Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04  9:05 ` [PATCH -queue v0 4/6] [loongson] add basic fuloong2f support Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-05 13:16   ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-05 14:44     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-06  5:39     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-06  8:30       ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2009-11-06 10:05         ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-06  8:34     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04  9:06 ` [PATCH -queue v0 5/6] [loongson] rtc: enable legacy RTC driver on fuloong2f Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04 10:40   ` Arnaud Patard
2009-11-04 11:18     ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04 11:34       ` Arnaud Patard
2009-11-04 14:15       ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-04 15:12         ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-04  9:06 ` [PATCH -queue v0 6/6] [loongson] add default config file for fuloong2f Wu Zhangjin

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