Re: [PATCH] Add intr_mask() / intr_unmask() interface to mask / unmask individual interrupt sources

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 02:57:05PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> > On Nov 30, 2019, at 2:24 PM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
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> >> Yes, it *should* be pretty straight-forward for anything using the arm/pic/pic.c interrupt middle-layer.--
> > 
> > Maybe this should be discussed in a wider audience than x86 then ?
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> My immediate need was for review of the x86 changes (which maxv did) and getting help with the Xen issue (which didn't really work out), hence posting it here.  I've already been discussing this privately with jmcneill, and the changes are structured such that incremental progress is possible.

Forbidding i2c calls from interrupt context in the middle layer is a big
change that needs more visibility IMHO. 

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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