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| author | Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> | 2007-11-15 02:00:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-11-15 03:45:43 +0100 |
| commit | c642b8391cf8efc3622cc97329a0f46e7cbb70b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 34a8892a55563c3885cfed1500f9933b49f04abe /kernel | |
| parent | pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (diff) | |
| download | linux-c642b8391cf8efc3622cc97329a0f46e7cbb70b8.tar.xz linux-c642b8391cf8efc3622cc97329a0f46e7cbb70b8.zip | |
__do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set
In __do_IRQ(), the normal case is that IRQ_DISABLED is checked and if set
the handler (handle_IRQ_event()) is not called.
Earlier in __do_IRQ(), if IRQ_PER_CPU is set the code does not check
IRQ_DISABLED and calls the handler even though IRQ_DISABLED is set. This
behavior seems unintentional.
One user encountering this behavior is the CPE handler (in
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c). When the CPE handler encounters too many CPEs
(such as a solid single bit error), it sets up a polling timer and disables
the CPE interrupt (to avoid excessive overhead logging the stream of single
bit errors). disable_irq_nosync() is called which sets IRQ_DISABLED. The
IRQ_PER_CPU flag was previously set (in ia64_mca_late_init()). The net
result is the CPE handler gets called even though it is marked disabled.
If the behavior of not checking IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set is
intentional, it would be worthy of a comment describing the intended
behavior. disable_irq_nosync() does call chip->disable() to provide a
chipset specifiec interface for disabling the interrupt, which avoids this
issue when used.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/irq/handle.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c index e391cbb1f566..dc335ad27525 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/handle.c +++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c @@ -178,9 +178,11 @@ fastcall unsigned int __do_IRQ(unsigned int irq) */ if (desc->chip->ack) desc->chip->ack(irq); - action_ret = handle_IRQ_event(irq, desc->action); - if (!noirqdebug) - note_interrupt(irq, desc, action_ret); + if (likely(!(desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED))) { + action_ret = handle_IRQ_event(irq, desc->action); + if (!noirqdebug) + note_interrupt(irq, desc, action_ret); + } desc->chip->end(irq); return 1; } |