> On Nov 28, 2019, at 2:21 AM, Jared McNeill <jmcne...@invisible.ca> wrote:
> 
> I should have commented the code in gicv3 so that you would have realized it 
> was “unnecessarily complicated” for a reason :)

Ok, I'll fix and add a comment.

> 
> The interrupt_distribute(9) API makes an assumption that the return value of 
> anything_intr_establish can be used as input for the MD interrupt_distribute 
> implementation. For arm pic, struct intrsource * made most sense. It is a bit 
> of a hassle for fdtbus and really shows the need for an MI interrupt API.
> 
> So where this breaks things is if you have something in the kernel do:
> 
>   Ih = fdtbus_intr_establish(…)
>   interrupt_distribute(ih, target, NULL)
> 
> Currently the only place where this can happen is arch/arm/fdt/pmu_fdt.c but 
> IMHO the code is perfectly valid and could appear in other places in the 
> future.

-- thorpej

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