Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: EOI spurious irqs during boot so they can be reenabled later

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:58:47 +1000

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 18:48 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > So when we receive a spurious irq, EOI it, and then mask it.
> 
> What happens when a new IRQ arrives on the interrupt controller
> between these EOI and mask calls?  Should you instead first mask
> it, and only then EOI it?  Or doesn't that work on XICS?

Yeah right, in which case we'd have not EOI'ed that one and we're back
at square one.

It seems to work with a mask then EOI, so unless Milton says otherwise
I'll do it that way - new patch coming.

cheers

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