Subject: [PATCH for 3.9-rc] arm: mvebu: Use local interrupt only for the timer 0

From: [email-masked] (Masami Hiramatsu)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:19:31 +0900

(2013/03/21 0:09), Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> The commit 3a6f08a37 "arm: mvebu: Add support for local interrupt",
> managed the 28th first interrupts as local interrupt to match the
> hardware specification. Among these interrupts there are the Gigabits
> Ethernet ones used by the mvneta driver. Unfortunately the state of
> the percpu_irq API prevents the driver to use it.
> 
> Indeed the interrupts have to be freed when the .stop() function is
> called. As the free_percpu_irq() function don't disable the interrupt
> line, we have to do it on each CPU before calling this. The function
> disable_percpu_irq() only disable the percpu on the current CPU and
> there is no function which allows to disable a percpu irq on a given
> CPU. Waiting for the extension of the percpu_irq API, this fix allows
> to use again the mvneta driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <[email-masked]>

Hi,

I've tested this too.

Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email-masked]>

Thank you!

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Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com