[PATCH 4/5] ARM: gic: allow irq_start to be 0

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Sep 18 02:24:02 EDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:31:39AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> 
> There's really no need to set irq_start per platform for the primary gic.
> The SGIs and PPIs are not handled as normal irqs, so how irqs 0-31 are
> setup doesn't really matter. So allow irq_start to be set to 0 to match
> the linux irq numbering.

Is this really what you want?  Linux irq 0 is not supposed to be used.
With the transition to dynamically allocated irq_descs, I want to make
sure 0 never gets assigned.

g.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/common/gic.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/common/gic.c b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> index 666b278..d1ccc72 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ void __init gic_init(unsigned int gic_nr, unsigned int irq_start,
>  	gic = &gic_data[gic_nr];
>  	gic->dist_base = dist_base;
>  	gic->cpu_base = cpu_base;
> -	gic->irq_offset = (irq_start - 1) & ~31;
> +	gic->irq_offset = irq_start ? (irq_start - 1) & ~31 : 0;
>  
>  	if (gic_nr == 0)
>  		gic_cpu_base_addr = cpu_base;
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 



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