RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: don't unmask disabled irqs when migratingthem

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 8:37 PM
> 
> On Mon, 9 May 2011, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 May 2011, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > yes, with your patch this issue disappears, since you explicitly
> > > make mask/unmask as a nop for xen_percpu_chip, which effectively
> > > avoids them from undesired unmask when doing the migration. Though
> > > it works, it's not intuitive as to me it's an workaround to make Xen chip
> implementation adapting to specific fixup_irqs logic.
> >
> > I have been tring to follow the example of existing supported drivers.
> > The only x86 driver I could find that uses handle_percpu_irq is uv_irq
> > that does exatly the same thing.
> 
> Which is a good enough argument to make that change at the common code
> level instead of having fancy workarounds here and there.
> 

So Thomas, what's your suggestion to continue here? Is my original patch to skip
percpu irq in common code a good option to go, or you want a cleaner code in 
other form? Once it's clear I'll discuss with Stefano e.g. possibly merge with his
cleanup patch series. :-)

Thanks
Kevin
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