Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip: LoongArch: Select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Sat Nov 26 2022 - 07:53:19 EST


On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:39:09 +0100,
Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> An IRQ's effective affinity can only be different from its configured
> affinity if there are multiple CPUs. Make it clear that this option is
> only meaningful when SMP is enabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2: rebased on 6.1-rc2
>
> drivers/irqchip/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> index 7ef9f5e..8461915 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/Kconfig
> @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ config IRQ_LOONGARCH_CPU
> bool
> select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
> select IRQ_DOMAIN
> - select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
> + select GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK if SMP
> select LOONGSON_LIOINTC
> select LOONGSON_EIOINTC
> select LOONGSON_PCH_PIC

We already have this:

# Supports effective affinity mask
config GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
depends on SMP
bool

Do we really need to express this for every interrupt controller?

M.

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