On 2011-01-18 18:13, Philippe Gerum wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:33 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> The following changes since commit 4c83ab8e3ac5b194695e38bbc253f78e6072ad24: >> >> ipipe: tell __ipipe_run_irqtail about the latest IRQ number (2010-11-05 >> 13:52:55 +0100) >> >> are available in the git repository at: >> git://git.kiszka.org/ipipe-2.6 queues/2.6.35-noarch >> >> [edited log] >> Jan Kiszka (4): >> ipipe: Provide wrapper for IRQ mask/unmask at chip level > > Could you give me some hints about the intended usage of these?
The idea was (and still is but effort stalled ATM) to emulate MSI masking on top of that. > >> ipipe: Drop spurious irq_enter/exit from __ipipe_sync_stage > > Actually, what is wrong is not with irq_enter/exit, but rather with the > fact that we should only attempt a preemption resched when a virq > handler returns, and that is a generic operation. There is no point in > having uselessly hairy code in the arch-dep section, and that code is > pure nop with CONFIG_PREEMPT off. > > I just merged something along these lines. OK, will have a look. > >> ipipe: Provide __ipipe_spin_trylock_irq for !CONFIG_IPIPE >> Merge commit 'v2.6.35.9' into queues/2.6.35-noarch >> >> Will follow up with the ipipe specific patches for review. > > I'll be merging the IRQ virtualization removal for x86_32 next, but I > want to issue an intermediate patch with the pending fixes first, given > the potential for regression there is when messing with entry.S. > However, I'll merge the EFLAGS fixes early on, since they are obviously > required and right, and merge them along with 2.8-03 asap. > Fine with me. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Adeos-main mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/adeos-main
