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authorRuss Anderson <rja@sgi.com>2007-11-15 04:00:15 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-15 05:45:43 +0300
commitc642b8391cf8efc3622cc97329a0f46e7cbb70b8 (patch)
tree34a8892a55563c3885cfed1500f9933b49f04abe /kernel
parent57d5f66b86079efac5c9a7843cce2a9bcbe58fb8 (diff)
downloadlinux-c642b8391cf8efc3622cc97329a0f46e7cbb70b8.tar.xz
__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.c8
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;
}