Re: [PATCH v16 0/9] RISC-V IPI Improvements

[Anup Patel]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 2:05 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2023-02-15 03:17, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 Feb 2023 03:04:14 PST (-0800), Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> On Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:12:12 +0000,
> >> Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This series aims to improve IPI support in Linux RISC-V in following
> >>> ways:
> >>>  1) Treat IPIs as normal per-CPU interrupts instead of having custom
> >>> RISC-V
> >>>     specific hooks. This also makes Linux RISC-V IPI support aligned
> >>> with
> >>>     other architectures.
> >>>  2) Remote TLB flushes and icache flushes should prefer local IPIs
> >>> instead
> >>>     of SBI calls whenever we have specialized hardware (such as
> >>> RISC-V AIA
> >>>     IMSIC and RISC-V SWI) which allows S-mode software to directly
> >>> inject
> >>>     IPIs without any assistance from M-mode runtime firmware.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> I'm queuing patches 3 and 9 via the irqchip tree as they are
> >> standalone.
> >>
> >> For the rest, I need an Ack from the riscv maintainers as they change
> >> a large amount of arch-specific code, and the couple of irqchip
> >> patches depend on these changes.
> >>
> >> Palmer, Paul?
> >
> > I haven't gotten time to give this a proper review, but I think we've
> > got enough of a mess with our interrupt handling that it doesn't
> > really matter so
> >
> > Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > if you want to take it for this cycle that's fine with me, but I'm
> > also fine holding off so it can have a while to bake in linux-next --
> > there's no real rush for any of this, as there's no hardware yet.
>
> Letting this sort of things simmering in -next is the way.
>
> Now that the basic dependencies are on their way, I'd expect this to be
> rebased on 6.3-rc1, and we can then put the whole thing in -next.

Okay, I will rebase on 6.3-rc1 whenever it is available.

Thanks,
Anup

>
> Thanks,
>
>          M.
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