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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 09/19] genirq: Add a new function to get IPI reverse mapping
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 10:40 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > While trying to get my remoteproc driver work with this I uncovered a
> > > problem
> > > with this approach.
> > >
> > > mips-gic doesn't store the actual hwirq in the irq_data. It uses
> > > GIC_SHARED_TO_HWIRQ() and GIC_HWIRQ_TO_SHARED() to add and remove an
> > > offset.
> > Why can't MIPS store the real hwirq number in irq_data?
>
>
> I'm wary of ending up in inconsistency hell where some functions need to deal
> with raw hwirq and others with translated ones.
>
> I will give this a go first and see if it gets really ugly.

Well, the question is why can't those functions not all use the raw
hardware irq. We have it in irq_data exactly to avoid calculations in
the hot path functions.

Thanks,

tglx


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