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From: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru•mvista.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [ PATCH ] PowerPC cascade UIC IRQ handler fix.
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:09:29 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B30CE9.5080905@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070802150852.39701576@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com>

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:48:48 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson•dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:35:17PM +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:
>>> PPC44x cascade UIC irq handler fix.
>>>
>>> According to PPC44x UM, if an interrupt is configured as
>>> level-sensitive, and a clear is attempted on the UIC_SR, the UIC_SR
>>> field is not cleared if the incoming interrupt signal is at the
>>> asserted polarity. This causes us to enter a cascade handler twice,
>>> since we first ack parent UIC interrupt and ack child UIC one after
>>> that. The patch checks child UIC msr value and returns IRQ_HANDLED
>>> if there're no pending interrupts. Otherwise we get a kernel panic
>>> with a "Fatal exception in interrupt" (illegal vector).
>>> The patch also fixes status flags.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru•mvista.com>
>> Hrm... This doesn't seem like the right fix to me.  Instead, I think
>> the cascaded IRQ handler should ack the interrupt on the child first.
>> I'm a little surprised it doesn't at the moment.
> 
> Agreed.  Anyone going to hack up a patch for that?
> 
> josh

Anyways, I don't see why kernel should panic if we get a spurious interrupt.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 16:35 [ PATCH ] PowerPC cascade UIC IRQ handler fix Valentine Barshak
2007-08-02  3:48 ` David Gibson
2007-08-02 20:08   ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 11:09     ` Valentine Barshak [this message]
2007-08-03  1:18   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-03  4:57     ` David Gibson
2007-08-03  6:23       ` David Gibson
2007-08-13  1:08         ` David Gibson
2007-08-13 12:31           ` Valentine Barshak
2007-08-14  1:35             ` David Gibson

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