On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Khalid Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Terminate any outstanding interrupts
> > + */
> > +void terminate_irqs(void)
> > +{
> > +   struct irqaction * action;
> > +   irq_desc_t *idesc;
> > +   int i;
> > +
> > +   for (i=0; i<NR_IRQS; i++) {
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < NR_IRQS; i++) {
> 
> > +           idesc = irq_descp(i);
> > +           action = idesc->action;
> > +           if (!action)
> > +                   continue;
> > +           if (idesc->handler->end)
> > +                   idesc->handler->end(i);
> > +   }
> > +}
> 
> Could we have a bit more description of what this function does, and why we
> need it?
> 
> Should other kexec-using architectures be using this?  If not, why does
> ia64 need it?

We've been kicking around a patch to do something similar, we also eoi
anything that's outstanding. I can't find the patch just now, but it's
on linuxppc somewhere I think.

cheers

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