Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:56:00 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] irqchip: sifive-plic: Differentiate between PLIC handler and context |
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 04:48:20PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > We explicitly differentiate between PLIC handler and context because > PLIC context is for given mode of HART whereas PLIC handler is per-CPU > software construct meant for handling interrupts from a particular > PLIC context. > > To achieve this differentiation, we rename "nr_handlers" to "nr_contexts" > and "nr_mapped" to "nr_handlers" in plic_init().
Not sure what this differenciates that we previously didn't. As far as I can tell it just is a slight naming cleanup.
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