Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 18:30 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 17:59 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> just uploaded a forward port of the 2.6.34 ipipe patch for x86 to latest
>>> stable 2.6.35.3. It boots and runs fine here in 64-bit mode with Xenomai
>>> head, but I only ran light tests so far. Anyone interested in upgrading
>>> the host kernel (I think I read some request recently) is welcome to
>>> give it a try and report results back (specifically on 32 bit as that is
>>> a bit out of focus for me ATM). You can download the full git tree from
>>>
>>>     git://git.kiszka.org/ipipe-2.6.git queues/2.6.35-x86
>>>     (alternatively also via http://)
>>>
>>> Looking forward to feedback,
>> The comment and the relevant code for 82a7dd3df needs fixing: all
>> pipeline ports should expose 4 IPIs, named IPIPE_SERVICE_IPI[0-3].
>> powerpc/SMP has one more up to 2.6.34, but IPI4 will disappear in
>> 2.6.35. The upcoming arm/SMP port conforms to this requirement as well.
>> Those are merely pipelined IPI channels, the way the arch-dep section
>> manages to multiplex them (or not) over the available hw channel(s) is
>> of course unspecified. The virtual IPI numbers are also unspecified.
> 
> Actually, the more I think of it, the less I see the value of checking
> the parameter passed to such an internal call like __ipipe_send_ipi().
> There is no user interaction with this code. So removing the test is
> indeed better.
> 

Isn't ipipe_send_ipi() a public API? That's what I was thinking of: if
at all, then here.

Jan

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