Clearing the interrupt

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 7 17:52:14 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:38 +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:04:47PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Is there any problem with the above approach? Is there any restriction
> > > such that a cpu which acknowledged the interrupt only should send the eoi
> > > signal?
> > 
> > While I don't think there -should- be any restriction, I also seem to
> > remember that the xics "emulation" done by the firmware on things like
> > JS20 requires the eoi to be done from the CPU where the interrupt
> > originated.
> >
> 
> Thanks Ben.
> 
> If thats the case, is it okay to call eoi handler from all cpus so that
> above case will be satisfied?

I suppose so.

Ben.





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