[PATCH -rt] powerpc update

Daniel Walker dwalker at mvista.com
Thu Oct 19 00:32:21 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker at mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > Pay close attention to the fasteoi interrupt threading. I added usage 
> > of mask/unmask instead of using level handling, which worked well on 
> > PPC.
> 
> this is wrong - it should be doing mask+ack.

The main reason I did it this way is cause the current threaded eoi
expected the line to be masked. So if you happen to have a eoi that's
threaded you get a warning then the interrupt hangs. 

> also note that you changed:

> > -		goto out_unlock;
> 
> to:
> 
> > +		goto out;
> 
> and you even tried to hide your tracks:

hiding something? I made note of these changes specifically so you would
review them.

Daniel




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