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authorKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>2005-07-10 21:49:00 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-07-11 10:30:07 -0700
commit3b5cc09033f49d004006acf44e5b05036bd46a85 (patch)
treedcae13f5768234fe59736e877885ee6d8b4fc0fc /Documentation/sgi-visws.txt
parent699139279d29e36e39d353b0536b510dab2e5ffa (diff)
[IA64] assign_irq_vector() should not panic
Current assign_irq_vector() will panic if interrupt vectors is running out. But I think how to handle the case of lack of interrupt vectors should be handled by the caller of this function. For example, some PCI devices can raise the interrupt signal via both MSI and I/O APIC. So even if the driver for these device fails to allocate a vector for MSI, the driver still has a chance to use I/O APIC based interrupt. But currently there is no chance for these driver to use I/O APIC based interrupt because kernel will panic when assign_irq_vector() fails to allocate interrupt vector. The following patch changes assign_irq_vector() for ia64 to return -ENOSPC on error instead of panic (as i386 and x86_64 versions do). Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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