[PATCH v2] cxl/events: Return IRQ_NONE when no event is pending

From: Shaikh Kamaluddin

Date: Sat Sep 12 2026 - 05:46:13 EST


CXL event interrupts may share an MSI/MSI-X vector with other event
logs or device features. Consequently, cxl_event_thread() is registered
with IRQF_SHARED and must determine whether the event-log facility
claimed the interrupt.

The handler masks the Device Event Status register to the event logs
supported by the driver. However, when no supported status bit is set,
it exits the processing loop and still returns IRQ_HANDLED. This
incorrectly reports that the interrupt was claimed and prevents the
generic spurious-interrupt detector from accounting it as unhandled.

Track whether the CXL event handler claimed the interrupt and return
IRQ_NONE when no supported event is detected. If no handler sharing the
vector claims a sustained interrupt storm, the generic spurious-
interrupt detector can eventually identify and disable the affected
IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Shaikh Kamaluddin <shaikhkamal2012@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in V2:
- Emphasize that returning IRQ_NONE enables generic spurious-interrupt
detection and drop the Fixes tag. (Jonathan Cameron)
- Check whether the event interrupt is already disabled by Anisa Su's
patch; no code changes were needed. (Ben Cheatham)
- Rebase onto v7.3-rc2; no code changes.

drivers/cxl/pci.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
index c7c91e8dc51d..8b560cae91f2 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static irqreturn_t cxl_event_thread(int irq, void *id)
struct cxl_dev_id *dev_id = id;
struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds = dev_id->cxlds;
struct cxl_memdev_state *mds = to_cxl_memdev_state(cxlds);
+ bool handled = false;
u32 status;

do {
@@ -527,11 +528,13 @@ static irqreturn_t cxl_event_thread(int irq, void *id)
status &= CXLDEV_EVENT_STATUS_ALL;
if (!status)
break;
+
+ handled = true;
cxl_mem_get_event_records(mds, status);
cond_resched();
} while (status);

- return IRQ_HANDLED;
+ return handled ? IRQ_HANDLED : IRQ_NONE;
}

static int cxl_event_req_irq(struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds, u8 setting)

base-commit: df2908090cda368b01ff43709f51890076c56157
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2.43.0