[PATCH] arm64: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri May 9 08:57:26 PDT 2014


On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:48:27PM +0100, Larry Bassel wrote:
> Support for arch_irq_work_raise() was missing from
> arm64 (a prerequisite for FULL_NOHZ).
> 
> This patch is based on the arm32 patch ARM 7872/1
> which ports cleanly.
[...]
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_WORK
> +void arch_irq_work_raise(void)
> +{
> +	smp_cross_call(cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()), IPI_IRQ_WORK);
> +}
> +#endif

There was a subsequent patch adding is_smp() check here (c682e51dbc98
ARM: 7887/1: Don't smp_cross_call() on UP devices in
arch_irq_work_raise()). Don't we need it?

-- 
Catalin



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