linux-toradex.git/kernel/irq, branch v3.2.14-rt24

genirq: Allow disabling of softirq processing in irq thread context

2012-04-10T21:37:16+00:00

The processing of softirqs in irq thread context is a performance gain
for the non-rt workloads of a system, but it's counterproductive for
interrupts which are explicitely related to the realtime
workload. Allow such interrupts to prevent softirq processing in their
thread context.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org

genirq-force-threading.patch

2012-04-10T21:36:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

genirq: disable irqpoll on -rt

2012-04-10T21:36:49+00:00

Creates long latencies for no value

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

genirq: Disable random call on preempt-rt

2012-04-10T21:36:49+00:00

The random call introduces high latencies and is almost
unused. Disable it for -rt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler

2012-04-02T16:52:35+00:00

commit 540b60e24f3f4781d80e47122f0c4486a03375b8 upstream.

We do not want a bitwise AND between boolean operands

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135912.GA2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling

2012-04-02T16:52:35+00:00

commit a09b659cd68c10ec6a30cb91ebd2c327fcd5bfe5 upstream.

In 2008, commit 0c5d1eb77a8be ("genirq: record trigger type") modified the
way set_irq_type() handles the 'no trigger' condition.  However, this has
an adverse effect on PCMCIA support on Intel StrongARM and probably PXA
platforms.

PCMCIA has several status signals on the socket which can trigger
interrupts; some of these status signals depend on the card's mode
(whether it is configured in memory or IO mode).  For example, cards have
a 'Ready/IRQ' signal: in memory mode, this provides an indication to
PCMCIA that the card has finished its power up initialization.  In IO
mode, it provides the device interrupt signal.  Other status signals
switch between on-board battery status and loud speaker output.

In classical PCMCIA implementations, where you have a specific socket
controller, the controller provides a method to mask interrupts from the
socket, and importantly ignore any state transitions on the pins which
correspond with interrupts once masked.  This masking prevents unwanted
events caused by the removal and application of socket power being
forwarded.

However, on platforms where there is no socket controller, the PCMCIA
status and interrupt signals are routed to standard edge-triggered GPIOs.
These GPIOs can be configured to interrupt on rising edge, falling edge,
or never.  This is where the problems start.

Edge triggered interrupts are required to record events while disabled via
the usual methods of {free,request,disable,enable}_irq() to prevent
problems with dropped interrupts (eg, the 8390 driver uses disable_irq()
to defer the delivery of interrupts).  As a result, these interfaces can
not be used to implement the desired behaviour.

The side effect of this is that if the 'Ready/IRQ' GPIO is disabled via
disable_irq() on suspend, and enabled via enable_irq() after resume, we
will record the state transitions caused by powering events as valid
interrupts, and foward them to the card driver, which may attempt to
access a card which is not powered up.

This leads delays resume while drivers spin in their interrupt handlers,
and complaints from drivers before they realize what's happened.

Moreover, in the case of the 'Ready/IRQ' signal, this is requested and
freed by the card driver itself; the PCMCIA core has no idea whether the
interrupt is requested, and, therefore, whether a call to disable_irq()
would be valid.  (We tried this around 2.4.17 / 2.5.1 kernel era, and
ended up throwing it out because of this problem.)

Therefore, it was decided back in around 2002 to disable the edge
triggering instead, resulting in all state transitions on the GPIO being
ignored.  That's what we actually need the hardware to do.

The commit above changes this behaviour; it explicitly prevents the 'no
trigger' state being selected.

The reason that request_irq() does not accept the 'no trigger' state is
for compatibility with existing drivers which do not provide their desired
triggering configuration.  The set_irq_type() function is 'new' and not
used by non-trigger aware drivers.

Therefore, revert this change, and restore previously working platforms
back to their former state.

Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Clear action->thread_mask if IRQ_ONESHOT is not set

2012-03-12T19:31:24+00:00

commit 52abb700e16a9aa4cbc03f3d7f80206cbbc80680 upstream.

Xommit ac5637611(genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken)
fails to unmask when a !IRQ_ONESHOT threaded handler is handled by
handle_level_irq.

This happens because thread_mask is or'ed unconditionally in
irq_wake_thread(), but for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts never cleared.  So
the check for !desc->thread_active fails and keeps the interrupt
disabled.

Keep the thread_mask zero for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts.

Document the thread_mask magic while at it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim 
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Handle pending irqs in irq_startup()

2012-03-01T00:31:17+00:00

commit b4bc724e82e80478cba5fe9825b62e71ddf78757 upstream.

An interrupt might be pending when irq_startup() is called, but the
startup code does not invoke the resend logic. In some cases this
prevents the device from issuing another interrupt which renders the
device non functional.

Call the resend function in irq_startup() to keep things going.

Reported-and-tested-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken

2012-03-01T00:31:16+00:00

commit ac5637611150281f398bb7a47e3fcb69a09e7803 upstream.

When the primary handler of an interrupt which is marked IRQ_ONESHOT
returns IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_NONE, then the interrupt thread is not
woken and the unmask logic of the interrupt line is never
invoked. This keeps the interrupt masked forever.

This was not noticed as most IRQ_ONESHOT users wake the thread
unconditionally (usually because they cannot access the underlying
device from hard interrupt context). Though this behaviour was nowhere
documented and not necessarily intentional. Some drivers can avoid the
thread wakeup in certain cases and run into the situation where the
interrupt line s kept masked.

Handle it gracefully.

Reported-and-tested-by: Lothar Wassmann 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread

2011-12-02T10:54:24+00:00

In irq_wait_for_interrupt(), the should_stop member is verified before
setting the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule().
In case kthread_stop sets should_stop and wakes up the process after
should_stop is checked by the irq thread but before the task's state
is changed, the irq thread might never exit:

kthread_stop                    irq_wait_for_interrupt
------------                    ----------------------

                                 ...
...                              while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
kthread->should_stop = 1;
wake_up_process(k);
wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited);
...
                                     set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

                                     ...

                                     schedule();
                                 }

Fix this by checking if the thread should stop after modifying the
task's state.

[ tglx: Simplified it a bit ]

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322740508-22640-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@kernel.org