Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [tip:irq/core] x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling

H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-16T02:02:30Z

It should.

"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> On 10/15/2010 05:15 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> On 10/12/2010 01:29 PM, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> Commit-ID: 77dff1c755c3218691e95e7e38ee14323b35dbdb
>>> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/77dff1c755c3218691e95e7e38ee14323b35dbdb
>>> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>>> AuthorDate: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:37:10 +0200
>>> Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>>> CommitDate: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:53:44 +0200
>>>
>>> x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling
>>>
>>> There seems to be more cleanups possible, but that's left to the xen
>>> experts :)
>> This causes the kernel to fail to boot under Xen. The WARN_ON(res !=
>> irq) triggers and nobody is very happy about the results.
>
>Of course the really interesting question is whether this sparse irq
>rework allows us to hang our extra per-irq information of the irq_data
>structure now, rather than having to maintain all these auxiliary arrays?
>
>Thanks,
> J

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