Re: genirq: fasteoi change for retrigger

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 04:32:45 EST



* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo, Thomas.
>
> Would you be ok with a small change to the fasteoi handler that
>
> - If the interrupt happens while disabled, rather than just doing goto
> out, also mark it pending
> - In the normal handling code path, clear pending.
>
> That would allow some sort of soft-disable to work with fasteoi.
>
> My issue here is on Cell. I have a very strange interrupt controller
> that can't mask interrupts.

sure, it looks reasonable to me. Thomas?

Ingo
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