[PATCH for 3.9-rc] arm: mvebu: Use local interrupt only for the timer 0
Masami Hiramatsu
masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com
Wed Mar 20 22:19:31 EDT 2013
(2013/03/21 0:09), Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> The commit 3a6f08a37 "arm: mvebu: Add support for local interrupt",
> managed the 28th first interrupts as local interrupt to match the
> hardware specification. Among these interrupts there are the Gigabits
> Ethernet ones used by the mvneta driver. Unfortunately the state of
> the percpu_irq API prevents the driver to use it.
>
> Indeed the interrupts have to be freed when the .stop() function is
> called. As the free_percpu_irq() function don't disable the interrupt
> line, we have to do it on each CPU before calling this. The function
> disable_percpu_irq() only disable the percpu on the current CPU and
> there is no function which allows to disable a percpu irq on a given
> CPU. Waiting for the extension of the percpu_irq API, this fix allows
> to use again the mvneta driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
Hi,
I've tested this too.
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com>
Thank you!
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Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com
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