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SubjectRe: PCI: MSI interrupts masked using prohibited method
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On Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:56 am Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:33:10 +0100
>
> David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > I think David's original patch (just declining to mask the
> > > interrupt) is the best approach to take. Perhaps architectures
> > > with saner interrupt hardware would like to try the approach I've
> > > mentioned here.
> > >
> > > I don't like the comment in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/27/199 as
> > > it's not prohibited ... just a bad idea. How about this patch?
> >
> > The PCI specification is quite clear that it's prohibited. The
> > problem also is more severe than simply having spurious interrupts --
> > with some devices if a line interrupt is generated (regardless of
> > whether it ends up on the bus) then no more interrupts are generated.
> >
> > I also think that the change requires a comment in the code. It odd
> > to have a mask function that doesn't really mask so a comment is
> > necessary to explain why this is.
> >
> > Please apply this instead.
> >
> > David
>
> This breaks the setting of SMP affinity for MSI interrupts :-(
> With the patch, writes to /proc/irq/<n>/smp_affinity are ignored for an
> MSI interrupt.

It should only break it for devices that don't provide a mask bit. But given
that we can't really mask generically on those devices, maybe that's ok given
that it fixes the other problems mentioned in this thread...

Jesse


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