cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 intr_machdep.c src/sys/arm/arm intr.c src/sys/i386/i386 intr_machdep.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 interrupt.c src/sys/kern kern_cpuset.c kern_intr.c src/sys/powerpc/powerpc intr_machdep.c src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 ...

[Jeff Roberson]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>
> On Apr 10, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>> jeff        2008-04-11 03:26:41 UTC
>> 
>> FreeBSD src repository
>> 
>> Modified files:
>>   sys/amd64/amd64      intr_machdep.c
>>   sys/arm/arm          intr.c
>>   sys/i386/i386        intr_machdep.c
>>   sys/ia64/ia64        interrupt.c
>>   sys/kern             kern_cpuset.c kern_intr.c
>>   sys/powerpc/powerpc  intr_machdep.c
>>   sys/sparc64/sparc64  intr_machdep.c
>>   sys/sun4v/sun4v      intr_machdep.c
>>   sys/sys              cpuset.h interrupt.h
>> Log:
>>  - Add the interrupt vector number to intr_event_create so MI code can
>>    lookup hard interrupt events by number.  Ignore the irq# for soft intrs.
>
> JFYI: vectors are not the same as hard interrupt numbers.
> On ia64 they imply priority, which means that vector
> numbers should be selected for their priority and not
> have a 1-to-1 mapping with IRQ number.
> On powerpc they mean absolutely nothing other than being
> an index into an array.
>
> It's better to use IRQs and not vectors to lookup int.
> events by number.

I think I mixed my terminology in the commit.  I meant for all 
architectures to pass in the number that would appear in vmstat -i.  Can 
you verify that this is what I did for powerpc and ia64?

Thanks,
Jeff

>
> FYI,
>
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> Marcel Moolenaar
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>