Re: MSI irqchip configured as IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE causes spurious IRQs

[Ramon Fried]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 2:15 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > While debugging the root cause of spurious IRQ's on my PCIe MSI line it appears
> > that because of the line:
> >     info->chip->flags |= IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE;
> > in pci_msi_create_irq_domain()
> >
> > The IRQF_ONESHOT is ignored, especially when requesting IRQ through
> > pci_request_threaded_irq() where handler is NULL.
>
> Which is perfectly fine.
>
> > The problem is that the MSI masking now only surrounds the HW handler,
> > and all additional MSI that occur before the threaded handler is
> > complete are considered by the note_interrupt() as spurious.
>
> Which is not a problem as long as the thread finishes before 100k MSIs
> arrived on that line. If that happens then there is something really
> wrong. Either the device fires MSIs like crazy or the threaded handler
> is stuck somewhere.
>
> > Besides the side effect of that, I don't really understand the logic
> > of not masking the MSI until the threaded handler is complete,
> > especially when there's no HW handler and only threaded handler.
>
> What's wrong with having another interrupt firing while the threaded
> handler is running? Nothing, really. It actually can be desired because
> the threaded handler is allowed to sleep.
What do you mean, isn't it the purpose IRQ masking ?
Interrupt coalescing is done to mitigate these IRQ's, these HW
interrupts just consume
CPU cycles and don't do anything useful (scheduling an already
scheduled thread).
Thanks,
Ramon.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx