[PATCHv2 02/10] ARM: vic: MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER handler

[Jamie Iles]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:00:15PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> >        stat = readl_relaxed(vic->base + VIC_IRQ_STATUS);
> >        while (stat) {
> >                while (stat) {
> >                        irq = ffs(stat) - 1;
> >                        stat &= ~(1 << irq);
> >                        handle_irq(irq);
> >                }
> >                stat = readl_relaxed(vic->base + VIC_IRQ_STATUS);
> >        }
> >
> > This ensures that we process all interrupts found pending before we
> > re-check for any new interrupts pending.  Arguably this is a much
> > fairer implementation (and may mean if things get irrevokably stuck,
> > things like sysrq via the console uart may still work.)
> 
> I really like the looks of this, Jamie can you do it like that?

Yup, I'll respin either tonight or tomorrow night and rebase ontop of 
the asm/exception.h patch.  Do we also want the behaviour so that it 
keeps looping over all VIC's until there are no pending interrupts?  I 
think that's probably worth it.

> Maybe some smallish comment about what's going on can be
> good for future generations reading that code...

OK, will do.

Thanks Linus and Russell!

Jamie