[PATCH v3 1/1] soc: fujitsu: Add A64FX diagnostic interrupt driver

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Apr 8 07:21:30 PDT 2022


On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 3:32 PM Daniel Thompson
> <daniel.thompson at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 05:44:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > There is some prior art for this sort of feature. AFAICT SGI UV has a
> > similar mechanism that can send an NMI-with-no-side-channel to the
> > kernel. The corresponding driver offers a range of actions using a
> > module parameter:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c#n180
> >
> > I don't think a hardcoded 'c' makes any sense. With a hardcoded argument
> > it is just obfuscation. However it is certainly seems attractive to be
> > able to reuse handle_sysrq() to provide a more powerful set of actions.
> 
> How about a module parameter that allows picking a sysrq character then?

Module parameters are so 1990, as this is a platform device, why not get
it from DT?

thanks,

greg k-h



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