Re: [PATCH -rt] powerpc update

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 10:52:33 EST


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Pay close attention to the fasteoi interrupt threading. I added usage
> > > > of mask/unmask instead of using level handling, which worked well on
> > > > PPC.
> > >
> > > this is wrong - it should be doing mask+ack.
> >
> > The main reason I did it this way is cause the current threaded eoi
> > expected the line to be masked. So if you happen to have a eoi that's
> > threaded you get a warning then the interrupt hangs.
>
> does that in fact happen on -rt6? If yes, could you send the warning
> that is produced?
>
> Ingo

The warning was the WARN_ON_ONCE from the section below (which is gone
is -rt6)

if (redirect_hardirq(desc)) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ mask_ack_irq(desc, irq);
goto out_unlock;
}
+

I haven't tried it, but I'd think it will work. That's assuming you have
an "ack" which I hear some PowerPC don't (Benjamin Herrenschmidt talked
about having no "ack" when discussing fasteoi a few month back).

Daniel

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