Re: [PATCH 4/5] ARM: gic: allow irq_start to be 0

From: Grant Likely
Date: Sun Sep 18 2011 - 02:32:29 EST


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:31:39AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There's really no need to set irq_start per platform for the primary gic.
> The SGIs and PPIs are not handled as normal irqs, so how irqs 0-31 are
> setup doesn't really matter. So allow irq_start to be set to 0 to match
> the linux irq numbering.

Is this really what you want? Linux irq 0 is not supposed to be used.
With the transition to dynamically allocated irq_descs, I want to make
sure 0 never gets assigned.

g.

>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/common/gic.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/common/gic.c b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> index 666b278..d1ccc72 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/common/gic.c
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ void __init gic_init(unsigned int gic_nr, unsigned int irq_start,
> gic = &gic_data[gic_nr];
> gic->dist_base = dist_base;
> gic->cpu_base = cpu_base;
> - gic->irq_offset = (irq_start - 1) & ~31;
> + gic->irq_offset = irq_start ? (irq_start - 1) & ~31 : 0;
>
> if (gic_nr == 0)
> gic_cpu_base_addr = cpu_base;
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
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