Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc - Initialize the irq radix tree earlier

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 21:08:11 EST



> - Remove the populating of the tree from the revmap function as
> you already do
> - Move it to irq_create_mapping() for the normal case
> - For pre-existing interrupt, have the generic code that initializes
> the radix tree walk through all interrupts and setup the revmap for
> them. If that needs locking vs. concurrent irq_create_mapping, it's
> easy to use one of the available spinlocks for that.

And in fact, you may even be able to avoid GFP_ATOMIC completely here
and switch it to GFP_KERNEL since irq_create_mapping() can sleep afaik,
provided that you avoid the spinlocking.

Ben.


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