Re: Can we dispose of __irq_itoa() ?

From: Jakub Jelinek (jakub@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 02:43:09 EST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:21:46PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I kinda have my doubts about __irq_itoa, which does not appear
> terribly SMP safe... and incurs one more #ifdef __sparc__
> in every damn driver that is shared, even if it is never
> going to be used on sun4d (which is the only architecture
> with a nontrivial __irq_itoa).

Wrong, see include/asm-sparc64/irq.h, sparc64 has non-trivial __irq_itoa as
well.
To make them SMP safe, we could do something like:
sparc64:
#define IRQ_FORMAT "%d,%x"
#define IRQ_ARGS(irq) __irq_pil(irq), (unsigned int)__irq_ino(irq)
on say i386
#define IRQ_FORMAT "%d"
#define IRQ_ARGS(irq) (irq)

and drivers could use it without #ifdef __sparc__ like this:

                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: request irq " IRQ_FORMAT " failure\n",
                        ncr_name(np), IRQ_ARGS(irq));

The question would be what to do on sparc, but perhaps we could just throw the
,%x argument on some sun4d irqs (and only provide pil there).

Cheers,
    Jakub
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