Re: 2.6.25-rc7: warn_on_slowpath triggered

[Bob Tracy]

Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2008.03.31 03:40:37 +0200, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote:
> > [Added Ingo and Thomas to Cc:]
> > 
> > On 2008.03.29 17:29:55 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > > System is a AMD K6-III/450.  This is actually a 2.6.25-rcX issue
> > > that I'm just getting around to reporting.  Sorry about that...
> > 
> > Not necessarily a regression, it's just that the WARN_ON_ONCE didn't
> > exist yet in 2.6.24.
> 
> Hm, the warnings seem to be a bit broken. They were added in
> 7d409d6057c7244f8757ce15245f6df27271be0c "x86: add some pirq debugging".
> 
> In pirq_via586_{get,set} and pirq_ite_{get,set}, they're missing the
> fact that we're using pirq-1 to index the array. So it's spitting out
> warnings for valid cases. So Bob's warning can very well be completely
> bogus.
> 
> In pirq_ali_{get,set} there's probably the same problem, but I can't
> really tell for sure, because pirq isn't used to index the array
> directly, and the comment above that functions tells me not to guess
> anything.
> 
> For pirq_vlsi_{get,set} I just wondered why that ">= 9" instead of "> 8"
> as it is on the next line, but well, that's just style nit-picking...
> 
> Bj?rn

I've been out of town for the past week and a half, and had no way to
test the "linux/arch/x86/pci/irq.c" patch you provided.  Since this is
still being tracked as an unresolved issue, I guess I need to say "it
fixes the problem for me." Your fix didn't make it into mainline for
2.6.25-rc8, but it applies cleanly and works properly there as well.

Thanks!

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