[PATCH V3 1/3] ACPI, PCI IRQ: add PCI_USING penalty for ISA interrupts

[Sinan Kaya]

On 10/20/2016 7:41 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:01:04PM -0700, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> On 10/19/2016 3:44 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
>>>   - Maintain a mapping of (IRQ, penalty).  Initially all penalties are
>>>     zero.  This is for *all* IRQs, not just ISA ones.  This could be a
>>>     linked list, but the structure is not important as long as we can
>>>     add things dynamically.
>>
>> Dynamic allocation doesn't work due to early calls from x86 architecture.
>> This is the reason why we iterate the link objects.
> 
> Where exactly is this early penalization?  That seems to be the
> biggest problem.  Well, maybe the question of ACPI core parsing of
> _CRS/_PRS is a bigger structural problem, but the dynamic allocation
> thing at least seems solvable.
> 

http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=145580159209240&w=2


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