linux-toradex.git/kernel/irq/spurious.c, branch v2.6.27.5

genirq: reenable a nobody cared disabled irq when a new driver arrives

2008-05-02T11:40:34+00:00

Uwe Kleine-Koenig has some strange hardware where one of the shared
interrupts can be asserted during boot before the appropriate driver
loads. Requesting the shared irq line from another driver result in a
spurious interrupt storm which finally disables the interrupt line.

I have seen similar behaviour on resume before (the hardware does not
work anymore so I can not verify).

Change the spurious disable logic to increment the disable depth and
mark the interrupt with an extra flag which allows us to reenable the
interrupt when a new driver arrives which requests the same irq
line. In the worst case this will disable the irq again via the
spurious trap, but there is a decent chance that the new driver is the
one which can handle the already asserted interrupt and makes the box
usable again.

Eric Biederman said further: This case also happens on a regular basis
in kdump kernels where we deliberately don't shutdown the hardware
before starting the new kernel.  This patch should reduce the need for
using irqpoll in that situation by a small amount.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Tested-and-Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König

genirq: spurious.c: use time_* macros

2008-02-19T09:43:58+00:00

The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and
time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other
values.

So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined
at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly

Signed-off-by: S.Caglar Onur 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

genirq: turn irq debugging options into module params

2008-01-30T12:32:48+00:00

This allows to change them at runtime using sysfs. No need to
reboot to set them.

I only added aliases (kernel.noirqdebug etc.) so the old options
still work.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Improve behaviour of spurious IRQ detect

2007-07-16T16:05:46+00:00

Currently we handle spurious IRQ activity based upon seeing a lot of
invalid interrupts, and we clear things back on the base of lots of valid
interrupts.

Unfortunately in some cases you get legitimate invalid interrupts caused by
timing asynchronicity between the PCI bus and the APIC bus when disabling
interrupts and pulling other tricks.  In this case although the spurious
IRQs are not a problem our unhandled counters didn't clear and they act as
a slow running timebomb.  (This is effectively what the serial port/tty
problem that was fixed by clearing counters when registering a handler
showed up)

It's easy enough to add a second parameter - time.  This means that if we
see a regular stream of harmless spurious interrupts which are not harming
processing we don't go off and do something stupid like disable the IRQ
after a month of running.  OTOH lockups and performance killers show up a
lot more than 10/second

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix crash with irqpoll due to the IRQF_IRQPOLL flag testing

2007-05-24T15:37:14+00:00

With irqpoll enabled, trying to test the IRQF_IRQPOLL flag in the
actions would cause a NULL pointer dereference if no action was
installed (for example, the driver might have been unloaded with
interrupts still pending).

So be a bit more careful about testing the flag by making sure to test
for that case.

(The actual _change_ is trivial, the patch is more than a one-liner
because I rewrote the testing to also be much more readable.

Original (discarded) bugfix by Bernhard Walle.

Cc: Bernhard Walle 
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add IRQF_IRQPOLL flag (common code)

2007-05-08T18:15:22+00:00

irqpoll is broken on some architectures that don't use the IRQ 0 for the timer
interrupt like IA64.  This patch adds a IRQF_IRQPOLL flag.

Each architecture is handled in a separate pach.  As I left the irq == 0 as
condition, this should not break existing architectures that use timer_irq ==
0 and that I did't address with that patch (because I don't know).

This patch:

This patch adds a IRQF_IRQPOLL flag that the interrupt registration code could
use for the interrupt it wants to use for IRQ polling.

Because this must not be the timer interrupt, an additional flag was added
instead of re-using the IRQF_TIMER constant.  Until all architectures will
have an IRQF_IRQPOLL interrupt, irq == 0 will stay as alternative as it should
not break anything.

Also, note_interrupt() is called on CPU-specific interrupts to be used as
interrupt source for IRQ polling.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Grant Grundler 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86-64: Make noirqdebug_setup function non init to fix modpost warning

2007-01-11T00:52:44+00:00

o noirqdebug_setup() is __init but it is being called by
  quirk_intel_irqbalance() which if of type __devinit. If CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y,
  quirk_intel_irqbalance() is put into text section and it is wrong to
  call a function in __init section.

o MODPOST flags this on i386 if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:noirqdebug_setup from .text between 'quirk_intel_irqbalance' (at offset 0xc010969e) and 'i8237A_suspend'

o Make noirqdebug_setup() non-init.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] irq-flags: generic irq: Use the new IRQF_ constants

2006-07-02T20:58:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] genirq: add irq-chip support

2006-06-29T17:26:24+00:00

Enable platforms to use the irq-chip and irq-flow abstractions: allow setting
of the chip, the type and provide highlevel handlers for common irq-flows.

[rostedt@goodmis.org: misroute-irq: Don't call desc->chip->end because of edge interrupts]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds