Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: [PATCH] kexec on ia64 | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:07:58 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com> 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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