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authorLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2009-01-08 13:22:55 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2009-01-08 13:22:55 +1100
commit6206aa8b2b9a45b4cf3ee31b7209b014be349fd9 (patch)
tree72c4223a2cc21bf055948eadb3b314ed0568ae9d /arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h
parent95f8e302c04c0b0c6de35ab399a5551605eeb006 (diff)
parent9e42d0cf5020aaf217433cad1a224745241d212a (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h
index 71819bb943f..d573820c0ff 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pil.h
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@
*
* In fact any XCALL which has to etrap/rtrap has a problem because
* it is difficult to prevent rtrap from running BH's, and that would
- * need to be done if the XCALL arrived while %pil==15.
+ * need to be done if the XCALL arrived while %pil==PIL_NORMAL_MAX.
+ *
+ * Finally, in order to handle profiling events even when a
+ * local_irq_disable() is in progress, we only disable up to level 14
+ * interrupts. Profile counter overflow interrupts arrive at level
+ * 15.
*/
#define PIL_SMP_CALL_FUNC 1
#define PIL_SMP_RECEIVE_SIGNAL 2
@@ -18,5 +23,7 @@
#define PIL_SMP_CTX_NEW_VERSION 4
#define PIL_DEVICE_IRQ 5
#define PIL_SMP_CALL_FUNC_SNGL 6
+#define PIL_NORMAL_MAX 14
+#define PIL_NMI 15
#endif /* !(_SPARC64_PIL_H) */