On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:48:20PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > We explicitly differentiate between PLIC handler and context because > PLIC context is for given mode of HART whereas PLIC handler is per-CPU > software construct meant for handling interrupts from a particular > PLIC context. > > To achieve this differentiation, we rename "nr_handlers" to "nr_contexts" > and "nr_mapped" to "nr_handlers" in plic_init().
Not sure what this differenciates that we previously didn't. As far as I can tell it just is a slight naming cleanup.