having access to interrupt specifier in map() function
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 16 08:33:17 EST 2009
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 09:11 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Do you have any ideas on keeping access to the interrupt specifier
> around so when we call map() we have access to it. Our HV guys are
> looking at using additional bits in the interrupt specifier to encode
> information beyond just level/sense of the IRQ and want to make
> decisions based on it during map().
>
> Maybe we can keep it around in irq_map[].
Or we could translate those additional info into flags in the IRQ desc ?
Might be possible to request some arch specific flags in there.
Cheers,
Ben.
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