[PATCH 1/2] arm/xen: Correctly check if the event channel interrupt is present

Julien Grall julien.grall at linaro.org
Wed Feb 18 03:41:52 PST 2015


Hi Ian,

On 18/02/2015 11:27, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 06:34 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>> The function irq_of_parse_and_map returns 0 when the IRQ is not found.
>>
>> Furthermore xen_events_irq is only read when the CPU is bring up, so
>> it's not necessary to use the attribute __read_mostly.
>
> Part of the purpose of __read_mostly is to move such things out of
> sharing cachelines with other more hot read/write things, as much as it
> is to group all the "read only" things together.

Hmmm... You are right. I didn't understand this macro like that.

I will resend the series with this patch drop and add Ard's patch [1].

Regards,

[1] https://patches.linaro.org/44633/

-- 
Julien Grall



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