Re: [PATCH WIP 6/6] xen/arm: enable evtchn irqs

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 10:48:28 EST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 05:14:45PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On ARM irqs are not enabled by default:

Which IRQs? Xen IRQs? Linux IRQs?
>
> - call enable_percpu_irq for IRQ_EVTCHN_CALLBACK;

Why do we want to do that?

>
> - set the IRQF_VALID flag for the other irqs bound to evtchns. It causes
> IRQ_NOAUTOEN to be set and as a consequence irq_unmask is going to be
> called when a xenbus driver calls request_irq.

Can you explain in more details why we need that?
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/xen/events.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> index 0132505..ca92755 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
> #include <xen/interface/hvm/params.h>
> #include <xen/interface/physdev.h>
> #include <xen/interface/sched.h>
> +#include <asm/hw_irq.h>
>
> /*
> * This lock protects updates to the following mapping and reference-count
> @@ -827,6 +828,7 @@ int bind_evtchn_to_irq(unsigned int evtchn)
>
> xen_irq_info_evtchn_init(irq, evtchn);
> }
> + set_irq_flags(irq, IRQF_VALID);
>
> out:
> mutex_unlock(&irq_mapping_update_lock);
> @@ -1751,6 +1753,7 @@ int __init xen_init_IRQ_arm(void)
> if (rc) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "Error requesting IRQ %d\n", IRQ_EVTCHN_CALLBACK);
> }
> + enable_percpu_irq(IRQ_EVTCHN_CALLBACK, 0);
> return rc;
> }
> core_initcall(xen_init_IRQ_arm);
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
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