Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] arm: Convert to GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 13:08:01 EST


On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:

> This converts the ARM port to use the recently added
> GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER, which is essentially just a copy of ARM's
> existhing MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER. The only changes are:
>
> * handle_arch_irq is now defined in a generic C file instead of an
> arm-specific assembly file.
> * handle_arch_irq is not marked as __ro_after_init.

Why? What prevents the generic implementation from doing so?

Thanks,

tglx