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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2007 18:40:11 +0100
From:      Olivier Houchard <cognet@ci0.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 112424 for review
Message-ID:  <20070102174011.GA93081@ci0.org>
In-Reply-To: <200701021220.09987.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200701021653.l02GrTiC007919@repoman.freebsd.org> <200701021220.09987.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:20:09PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 11:53, Olivier Houchard wrote:
> > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=112424
> > 
> > Change 112424 by cognet@hulglah on 2007/01/02 16:52:32
> > 
> > 	Implement a minimalist intr_eoi_src which just calls arm_unmask_irq(),
> > 	so that irq are unmasked after a filter+ithread runs.
> 
> Err, you shouldn't need to mask the IRQ unless you schedule the ithread.   Hmm,
> I'd also prefer it if we didn't pass function handlers to mi_handle_intr() (which
> should be intr_handle() or something, all the MI interrupt code is intr_foo(),
> not mi_foo_intr()) but instead set them in the intr_event and passed them to
> intr_event_create().

Basically the problem is arm_execute_handlers() can't know if we're talking
about an interrupt for which we had a filter, and so we don't have to mask it,
or an interrupt for which we have to schedule the ithread. So it has to be
always masked.

Cheers,

Olivier



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