I'll rework as per your suggestions.
Thanks,
John
>
> On Thu, 03 May 2007 07:56:02 -0500
> John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On SN, only allow one bit to be set in the smp_affinty mask
> > when redirecting an interrupt. Currently setting multiple
> > bits is allowed, but only the first bit is used in
> > determining the CPU to redirect to. This has caused confusion
> > among some customers.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > +
> > +int is_affinity_mask_valid(cpumask_t cpumask)
> > +{
> > + if (ia64_platform_is("sn2")) {
> > + /* Only allow one CPU to be specified in the smp_affinity mask
> > */
> > + if (cpus_weight(cpumask) != 1)
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > + return 1;
> > +}
>
> A bool returning true or false would be appropriate, given this function's
> clearly-boolean name.
>
> > +#ifndef ARCH_HAS_IRQ_AFFINITY_VALIDATION
> > +#define is_irq_affinity_mask_valid(cpumask) 1
> > +#endif
>
> The ARCH_HAS_FOO things have never been popular. There are a couple of
> alternatives going around:
>
> a) use __attribute__((weak)) and provide a one-line default
> implementation in kernel/irq/proc.c. This has a small runtime cost.
>
> b) In include/asm-ia64/irq.h, do
>
> #define is_affinity_mask_valid is_affinity_mask_valid
>
> and in kernel/irq/proc.c do
>
> #ifndef is_affinity_mask_valid
> #define is_affinity_mask_valid() 1
> #endif
>
> This has minimal runtime cost, but is a bit tricksy.
>
> It has the advantage that it doesn't introduce some new identifier
> which needs to be maintained.
>
> > extern int irq_set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask);
> > extern int irq_can_set_affinity(unsigned int irq);
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-ia64/irq.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-ia64/irq.h 2007-05-01 15:47:01.660643076
> > -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-ia64/irq.h 2007-05-01 15:48:42.729254805
> > -0500
> > @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
> > * 02/29/00 D.Mosberger moved most things into hw_irq.h
> > */
> >
> > +#include <linux/cpumask.h>
> > +
>
> This is the sort of inclusion which tends to make things blow up. I trust
> this was carefully compile-tested.
>
> With a) above, the is_affinity_mask_valid() declaration would be in a
> different header. With b), no additional include will be needed.
>
> > #define NR_IRQS 256
> > #define NR_IRQ_VECTORS NR_IRQS
> >
> > @@ -30,4 +32,7 @@ extern void disable_irq_nosync (unsigned
> > extern void enable_irq (unsigned int);
> > extern void set_irq_affinity_info (unsigned int irq, int dest, int redir);
> >
> > +#define ARCH_HAS_IRQ_AFFINITY_VALIDATION
> > +extern int is_affinity_mask_valid(cpumask_t cpumask);
> > +
>
>
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