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Commit 19eadf98 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] x86: increase interrupt vector range



Remove the limit of 256 interrupt vectors by changing the value stored in
orig_{e,r}ax to be the complemented interrupt vector.  The orig_{e,r}ax
needs to be < 0 to allow the signal code to distinguish between return from
interrupt and return from syscall.  With this change applied, NR_IRQS can
be > 256.

Xen extends the IRQ numbering space to include room for dynamically
allocated virtual interrupts (in the range 256-511), which requires a more
permissive interface to do_IRQ.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@UNISYS.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent bd9e0b74
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