Re: [PATCH 8/11] mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 03:18:55 EST


On Wed, Apr 23 2008, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:50:24PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > This converts mips to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
> > friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Not tested,
> > but it compiles.
> >
> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
> > arch/mips/kernel/smp-mt.c | 27 ++++++++-
> > arch/mips/kernel/smp.c | 133 +++-------------------------------------
> > arch/mips/kernel/smtc.c | 7 ++
> > arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/smp.c | 3 +
> > arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/smp.c | 2 +
> > include/asm-mips/smp.h | 12 +---
> > 7 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> > index 8724ed3..5092a9e 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> > @@ -1742,6 +1742,7 @@ config SMP
> > bool "Multi-Processing support"
> > depends on SYS_SUPPORTS_SMP
> > select IRQ_PER_CPU
> > + select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
> > help
> > This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
> > a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/smp-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/smp-mt.c
> > index 89e6f6a..31049fc 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/kernel/smp-mt.c
> > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/smp-mt.c
> > @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
> >
> > #define MIPS_CPU_IPI_RESCHED_IRQ 0
> > #define MIPS_CPU_IPI_CALL_IRQ 1
> > +#define MIPS_CPU_IPI_CALL_SINGLE_IRQ 2
>
> The smp-mt.c has no chance of working. There are only two hardware
> interrupts available so just using one more won't quite work. But I like
> the basic idea of this patch series.

I'll switch mips over to sharing the IPI for both ipi function calls
then, thanks Ralf!

--
Jens Axboe

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