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The logic of GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ is backwards for historical reasons. Most interrupt controllers allow to move the interrupt from arbitrary contexts. If GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ is enabled by an architecture to support a chip, which requires the affinity change to happen in interrupt context, all other chips have to be marked with IRQF_MOVE_PCNTXT. That's tedious and there is no real good reason for the extra flags in the irq descriptor and the irq data status fields. In fact the decision whether interrupts can be moved in arbitrary context or not is a property of the interrupt chip. To simplify adoption for RISC-V provide a new mechanism which is enabled via a config switch and allows to add a flag to irq_chip::flags to request that interrupt affinity changes are deferred. Setting the top level chip of an interrupt evaluates the flag and maps it into the existing logic. The config switch and the various PCNTXT flags are temporary until x86 is converted over to this scheme. This intermediate step also allows trivial backporting of the mechanism to plug the affinity change race of various RISC-V interrupt controllers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241210103335.500314436@linutronix.de
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.