[RFC PATCH 1/3] genirq: add support for per-cpu dev_id interrupts

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 15/09/11 23:49, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> +
> >> +	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
> >> +
> >> +	unregister_handler_proc(irq, action);
> >> +
> >> +	/* Make sure it's not being used on another CPU: */
> >> +	synchronize_irq(irq);
> > 
> > That's not helping w/o making synchronize_irq() aware of the percpu
> > stuff. Also there is the question whether we need the ability to
> > remove such interrupts in the first place. The target users are low
> > level arch interrupts not some random device drivers.
> 
> Again, there is no need for this at the moment (the timer code runs
> running forever), and this is only there for completeness.
> 
> I'll see if I can come up with a synchronize_percpu_irq() without adding
> too much bloat to irqdesc.

You'd need a PROGRESS flag per cpu, which is overkill. What you can do
is to check whether the percpu enabled cpumask is completely empty and
return with a WARN when not.

Thanks,

	tglx