[GIT/PATCH 0/4] Do not use IRQF_TIMER for non timer interrupts

Ian Campbell Ian.Campbell at eu.citrix.com
Thu Jul 29 20:16:13 EST 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 09:49 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Continue to provide IRQF_TIMER as an alias to IRQF_NO_SUSPEND since I
> > think it is worth preserving the nice self-documenting name (where it
> > is used appropriately). It also avoid needing to patch all the many
> > users who are using the flag for an actual timer interrupt.
> 
> I'm not happy about the alias. What about:
> 
> #define __IRQF_TIMER		0x00000200
> #define IRQF_NO_SUSPEND		0x00000400
> 
> #define IRQF_TIMER    (__IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND)

Resending with this change. Plus I ran checkpatch on the whole lot (I
previously managed to run it only on the first patch) and fixed the
complaints.

Ian.

The following changes since commit fc0f5ac8fe693d1b05f5a928cc48135d1c8b7f2e:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../ericvh/v9fs

are available in the git repository at:

  git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git for-irq/irqf-no-suspend

Ian Campbell (4):
      irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
      ixp4xx-beeper: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupt
      powerpc: Use IRQF_NO_SUSPEND not IRQF_TIMER for non-timer interrupts
      xen: do not suspend IPI IRQs.

 arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/low_i2c.c |    5 +++--
 drivers/input/misc/ixp4xx-beeper.c        |    3 ++-
 drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c               |    9 +++++----
 drivers/xen/events.c                      |    1 +
 include/linux/interrupt.h                 |    7 ++++++-
 kernel/irq/manage.c                       |    2 +-
 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)




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