Re: [PATCH] irqchip: mips-cpu: Remove eoi operation

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Jan 15 2020 - 08:40:36 EST


On 2020-01-14 23:30, Paul Burton wrote:
Hi Jiaxun,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 06:12:51PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
The eoi opreation in mips_cpu_irq_controller caused chained_irq_enter
falsely consider CPU IP interrupt as a FastEOI type IRQ. So the interrupt
won't be masked during in handler. Which might lead to spurious interrupt.

Thus we simply remove eoi operation for mips_cpu_irq_controller,

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
index 95d4fd8f7a96..0ad7f1f9a58b 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static struct irq_chip mips_cpu_irq_controller = {
.irq_mask = mask_mips_irq,
.irq_mask_ack = mask_mips_irq,
.irq_unmask = unmask_mips_irq,
- .irq_eoi = unmask_mips_irq,
.irq_disable = mask_mips_irq,
.irq_enable = unmask_mips_irq,
};

This one scares me; something doesn't seem right. The irq_eoi (nÃe eoi)
callback was first added way back in commit 1417836e81c0 ("[MIPS] use
generic_handle_irq, handle_level_irq, handle_percpu_irq"). The commit
message there states that the motivation was to allow use of
handle_percpu_irq(), and indeed handle_percpu_irq() does:

irq_ack() (ie. mask)
invoke the handler(s)
irq_eoi() (ie. unmask)

By removing the irq_eoi callback I don't see how we'd ever unmask the
interrupt again..?

To be completely blunt, the fact that unmask and eoi are implemented the
same way is a clear sign that this is a bit broken.

irq_eoi is used if the irqchip tracks the IRQ life-cycle in HW, and it's
not obvious that this is the case. The fact that ack is also mapped to mask
just adds to my feeling...

M.
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