Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] iommu/amd: Add workaround for ERBT1312

[Joerg Roedel]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:59:58AM -0500, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
> One last concern I have for this patch is the case when we re-enable
> the interrupt, then another interrupt happens while we processing
> the log and set the bit.  If the interrupt thread doesn't check this
> right before the thread exits the handler.  We could still end up
> leaving the interrupt disabled.

That can't happen, the patch checks whether the bit is really 0 and then
it processes the event/ppr-log entries. If any new entry is queued while
we process the logs another interrupt will be fired and the irq-thread
will run again. So we will not miss any log entry.


	Joerg


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