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

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:07:35 PDT (-0700), tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I guess that should have said "handle_arch_irq was not marked as
__ro_after_init".  The patch set has __ro_after_init for the generic
implementation, which was not the case for the arm version.