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* [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Consolidating GIC per-cpu interrupts
@ 2011-05-06 10:33 Marc Zyngier
  2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: gic: add per-cpu interrupt multiplexer Marc Zyngier
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From: Marc Zyngier @ 2011-05-06 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

The current GIC per-cpu interrupt (aka PPIs) suffers from a number of
problems:

- It uses a completely separate scheme to handle the interrupts,
  mostly because the PPI concept doesn't really match the kernel view
  of an interrupt.
- Some low-level code gets duplicated, as usual...
- At least one platform (msm) has started implementing its own
  alternative scheme.

The proposed solution is to let the GIC code expose the PPIs as
something that the kernel can manage. Instead of having a single
interrupt number shared on all cores, make the interrupt number be
different on each CPU.

This enables the use of the normal kernel API (request_irq() and
friends) and the elimination of some low level code.

This patch set is based on 2.6.39-rc6, and depends on Will Deacon's
GIC fasteoi patches. Tested on VExpress, PB-11MP, Pandaboard and
SMDK-S5PV310.

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2011-05-06 10:33 [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Consolidating GIC per-cpu interrupts Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: gic: add per-cpu interrupt multiplexer Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/12] ARM: smp_twd: add support for remapped PPI interrupts Marc Zyngier
2011-05-12 17:59   ` Stephen Boyd
2011-05-18 11:06     ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/12] ARM: omap4: use remapped PPI interrupts for local timer Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/12] ARM: versatile: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/12] ARM: shmobile: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: ux500: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/12] ARM: tegra: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/12] ARM: msm: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-12 20:23   ` Stephen Boyd
2011-05-19 10:15     ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-24 19:31       ` Stephen Boyd
2011-05-25 10:31         ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] ARM: exynos4: " Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] ARM: gic: remove previous local timer interrupt handling Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] ARM: gic: add compute_irqnr macro for exynos4 Marc Zyngier
2011-05-06 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/12] ARM: SMP: automatically select ARM_GIC_VPPI Marc Zyngier
2011-05-13 17:06 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] Consolidating GIC per-cpu interrupts Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-14 16:12   ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-17 14:21   ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-17 14:32     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-18 14:04       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-05-18 14:07         ` Marc Zyngier

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