Re: [PATCH 1/1] UML: fix missing non-blocking I/O, now DEBUG_SHIRQ works

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 13:32:19 EST


On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:01:57AM +0300, Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> DEBUG_SHIRQ generates spurious interrupts, triggering handlers such as
> mconsole_interrupt() or line_interrupt(). They expect data to be
> available to be read from their sockets/pipes, but in the case of
> spurious interrupts, the host didn't actually send anything, so UML
> hangs in read() and friends. Setting those fd's as O_NONBLOCK makes
> DEBUG_SHIRQ-enabled UML kernels boot and run correctly.

Nice.

I don't really like this section though. The casting I have now isn't
pleasant, but I don't like adding a new global to get rid of it.

> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
> index 542c9ef..02d132e 100644
> --- a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
> @@ -74,12 +74,11 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(mconsole_work, mc_work_proc);
>
> static irqreturn_t mconsole_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
> {
> - /* long to avoid size mismatch warnings from gcc */
> - long fd;
> + int fd;
> struct mconsole_entry *new;
> static struct mc_request req; /* that's OK */
>
> - fd = (long) dev_id;
> + fd = *((int *) dev_id);
> while (mconsole_get_request(fd, &req)){
> if(req.cmd->context == MCONSOLE_INTR)
> (*req.cmd->handler)(&req);
> @@ -798,10 +797,10 @@ void mconsole_stack(struct mc_request *req)
> */
> static char *notify_socket = NULL;
>
> +static int sock;
> +
> static int mconsole_init(void)
> {
> - /* long to avoid size mismatch warnings from gcc */
> - long sock;
> int err;
> char file[256];
>
> @@ -818,7 +817,7 @@ static int mconsole_init(void)
>
> err = um_request_irq(MCONSOLE_IRQ, sock, IRQ_READ, mconsole_interrupt,
> IRQF_DISABLED | IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM,
> - "mconsole", (void *)sock);
> + "mconsole", &sock);
> if (err){
> printk("Failed to get IRQ for management console\n");
> return(1);

Jeff

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