[PATCH for 3.9-rc] arm: mvebu: Use local interrupt only for the timer 0

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Mar 28 12:49:45 EDT 2013


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:09:35PM +0100, 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>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/irq-armada-370-xp.c |    8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied to mvebu/fixes

thx,

Jason.



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