linux/arch
Eric W. Biederman 8339f0008c [PATCH] i386: In assign_irq_vector look at all vectors before giving up
When the world was a simple and static place setting up irqs was easy.
It sufficed to allocate a linux irq number and a find a free cpu
vector we could receive that linux irq on.  In those days it was
a safe assumption that any allocated vector was actually in use
so after one global pass through all of the vectors we would have
none left.

These days things are much more dynamic with interrupt controllers
(in the form of MSI or MSI-X) appearing on plug in cards and linux
irqs appearing and disappearing.  As these irqs come and go vectors
are allocated and freed,  invalidating the ancient assumption that all
allocated vectors stayed in use forever.

So this patch modifies the vector allocator to walk through every
possible vector before giving up, and to check to see if a vector
is in use before assigning it.  With these changes we stop leaking
freed vectors and it becomes possible to allocate and free irq vectors
all day long.

This changed was modeled after the vector allocator on x86_64 where
this limitation has already been removed.  In essence we don't update
the static variables that hold the position of the last vector we
allocated until have successfully allocated another vector.  This
allows us to detect if we have completed one complete scan through
all of the possible vectors.

Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30 08:29:58 -08:00
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alpha [PATCH] fdtable: Make fdarray and fdsets equal in size 2006-12-10 09:57:22 -08:00
arm [ARM] 4117/1: S3C2412: Fix writel() usage in selection code 2007-01-29 10:09:17 +00:00
arm26 [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
avr32 [AVR32] Update ATSTK1000 defconfig: Enable macb by default 2007-01-26 13:19:48 +01:00
cris [PATCH] Change cpu_up and co from __devinit to __cpuinit 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
frv [PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" param 2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] i386: In assign_irq_vector look at all vectors before giving up 2007-01-30 08:29:58 -08:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2007-01-11 18:25:44 -08:00
m32r [PATCH] Change cpu_up and co from __devinit to __cpuinit 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls 2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel 2006-12-08 08:28:51 -08:00
mips [MIPS] VPE loader: Initialize lists before they're actually being used ... 2007-01-24 19:23:22 +00:00
parisc [PATCH] Change cpu_up and co from __devinit to __cpuinit 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2007-01-28 12:45:22 -08:00
ppc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2007-01-18 10:34:51 +11:00
s390 [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
sh sh: Fixup SH-2 BUG() trap handling. 2006-12-12 09:11:45 +09:00
sh64 [PATCH] Generic ioremap_page_range: sh64 conversion 2006-12-08 08:28:52 -08:00
sparc [SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release. 2006-12-31 14:06:05 -08:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Set g4/g5 properly in sun4v dtlb-prot handling. 2007-01-26 18:56:01 -08:00
um [PATCH] Fix UML on non-standard VM split hosts 2007-01-26 13:51:00 -08:00
v850 kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files 2006-12-12 20:04:19 +01:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64 ia32 vDSO: define arch_vma_name 2007-01-26 13:50:58 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] Xtensa: Add ktermios and minor filename fix 2006-12-13 09:05:50 -08:00