[patch 2/3] genirq: suppress resend of level interrupts

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Aug 12 2007 - 11:46:28 EST


Level type interrupts are resent by the interrupt hardware when
they are still active at irq_enable().

Suppress the resend mechanism for interrupts marked as level.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/irq/resend.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/irq/resend.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/irq/resend.c 2007-08-12 17:18:04.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/irq/resend.c 2007-08-12 17:18:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ void check_irq_resend(struct irq_desc *d
*/
desc->chip->enable(irq);

- if ((status & (IRQ_PENDING | IRQ_REPLAY)) == IRQ_PENDING) {
+ /*
+ * We do not resend level type interrupts. Level type
+ * interrupts are resent by hardware when they are still
+ * active.
+ */
+ if ((status & (IRQ_LEVEL | IRQ_PENDING | IRQ_REPLAY)) == IRQ_PENDING) {
desc->status = (status & ~IRQ_PENDING) | IRQ_REPLAY;

if (!desc->chip || !desc->chip->retrigger ||

--

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