[PATCH v3 3/5] arm: Convert to GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at sifive.com
Wed Mar 14 10:28:10 PDT 2018


On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:07:35 PDT (-0700), tglx at linutronix.de wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
>> This converts the ARM port to use the recently added
>> GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER, which is essentially just a copy of ARM's
>> existhing MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER.  The only changes are:
>>
>> * handle_arch_irq is now defined in a generic C file instead of an
>>   arm-specific assembly file.
>> * handle_arch_irq is not marked as __ro_after_init.
>
> Why? What prevents the generic implementation from doing so?

Sorry, I guess that should have said "handle_arch_irq was not marked as
__ro_after_init".  The patch set has __ro_after_init for the generic
implementation, which was not the case for the arm version.



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