Re: Device hang when offlining a CPU due to IRQ misrouting

From: Siddha, Suresh B
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 20:56:27 EST


On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 06:45:05PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Hmm. It looks like Siddha sent the wrong version of the patch.
> The working tested version had an additional test to ensure
> the mask and unmask methods were implemented.
>
> i.e.
> + if (irq_desc[irq].chip->mask)
> + irq_desc[irq].chip->mask(irq);
> and
>
> + if (irq_desc[irq].chip->unmask)
> + irq_desc[irq].chip->unmask(irq);
> +
>
> Siddha think you can resend the correct version.

Eric, In this version, I added the irq_has_action() check and hence
removed the check which ensures the presence for mask/unmask. My tests
showed that it was working fine. May be I am missing something.

>
> Rafael. Think you can add those two ifs and see if you test bed box
> works?
>
> I'm still not convinced that we can make fixup_irqs work in general
> but if we aren't going to yank it we should at least make it
> consistent with the rest of the code.

I agree.

thanks,
suresh
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