[RFC v2 1/3] Merge IPI and DEFAULT priorities

[Balbir Singh]

We merge IPI and DEFAULT priorities to the same
value. The idea is to keep interrupts enabled
even in lazy soft-disabled mode. Instead of storing
the IPI and irq separately, we keep the levels
same so that we deal with only one of them

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h
index f0b2385..d6cb9a0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h
@@ -14,17 +14,13 @@
 /* Want a priority other than 0.  Various HW issues require this. */
 #define	DEFAULT_PRIORITY	5
 
-/*
- * Mark IPIs as higher priority so we can take them inside interrupts
- * FIXME: still true now?
- */
-#define IPI_PRIORITY		4
+#define IPI_PRIORITY		5
 
 /* The least favored priority */
 #define LOWEST_PRIORITY		0xFF
 
 /* The number of priorities defined above */
-#define MAX_NUM_PRIORITIES	3
+#define MAX_NUM_PRIORITIES	2
 
 /* Native ICP */
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ICP_NATIVE
-- 
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