Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:56:19 +0000 | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] genirq: Allow an interrupt to be marked as 'raw' |
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On 2020-11-24 16:26, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:14:45PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> Some interrupts (such as the rescheduling IPI) rely on not going >> through >> the irq_enter()/irq_exit() calls. To distinguish such interrupts, add >> a new IRQ flag that allows the low-level handling code to sidestep the >> enter()/exit() calls. > > Well, not quite. The scheduler_ipi() function is perfectly fine being > called with irq_enter/irq_exit. As per this very series, that's your > current reality. > > The function just doesn't need it.
Yup, definitely a very bad choice of words here. /me goes and repaint the commit message.
Thanks,
M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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