From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751859Ab2FRLdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:33:50 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:57781 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270Ab2FRLds (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:33:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:33:39 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Michal Simek Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marc Zyngier , Grant Likely , Will Deacon , Rob Herring , Nicolas Pitre , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Ohad Ben-Cohen , Peter Crosthwaite Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] ARM: gic: Support forcing cpumask for possible cpus in the system Message-ID: <20120618113339.GC12029@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1340019011-18642-1-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> <1340019011-18642-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1340019011-18642-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:30:04PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote: > gic_set_affinity doesn't support force option. Force option > should work with all possible cpus in the system not only with > online cpus. Neither does x86. Why do you want this? Offline CPUs are unable to receive the interrupt in any case (and must not receive interrupts in the bringup path until they are online.)