Re: [PATCH] ARM: entry: Convert IRQ handling to generic IRQ entry

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 4:57 AM Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a small suggestion regarding the `interrupts_enabled` logic. If
> >> arm32 could also implement `regs_irqs_disabled(regs)` (similar to what
> >> arm64 and some other architectures already have), we might be able to
> >> unify this across subsystems.
> >
> > Yes, the patch implements this, hehe :)
> >
> >> Specifically, we could then replace the custom `interrupts_enabled`
> >> usage in both the arm64 architecture code and drivers like
> >> `drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c`.
> >
> > That should already be possible with this patch.
> >
> > I could also make a patch to replace all uses of interrupts_enabled()
> > with regs_irqs_disabled() as a follow-up to this patch (which introduces
>
> Yes, we can replace all interrupts_enabled() including irq-gic-v3.c and
> then remove the interrupts_enabled() in arch/arm64/include/asm/ptrace.h.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

OK I will add this one as a Link: tag to the generic irqentry for ARM
before I add it to Russell's patch tracker.

Yours,
Linus Walleij