2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
index a7174617616b..bb07f2928f4b 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
@@ -363,6 +363,13 @@ __irq_alloc_descs(int irq, unsigned int from, unsigned int cnt, int node,
                 if (from > irq)
                         return -EINVAL;
                 from = irq;
+        } else {
+                /*
+                 * For interrupts which are freely allocated the
+                 * architecture can force a lower bound to the @from
+                 * argument. x86 uses this to exclude the GSI space.
+                 */
+                from = arch_dynirq_lower_bound(from);
         }
 
         mutex_lock(&sparse_irq_lock);
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index b50990a5bea0..33e4648ae0e7 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -779,3 +779,8 @@ int __init __weak arch_early_irq_init(void)
 {
         return 0;
 }
+
+unsigned int __weak arch_dynirq_lower_bound(unsigned int from)
+{
+        return from;
+}