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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-08-03 10:56:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-08-03 10:56:44 -0700
commit148311d2ade909a79afb85a853c7979eb499563f (patch)
tree6dde0ac8804b729e084c3bef7226b10d661f12da /kernel
parentd97e1dcde5e19ed1f828baff4ab5fd0e517c8dae (diff)
parentdc9b229a58dc0dfed34272ff26c6d5fd17c674e0 (diff)
Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq fix from Ingo Molnar. * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Allow irq chips to mark themself oneshot safe
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/manage.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 0a8e8f059627..4c69326aa773 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -944,6 +944,18 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
}
/*
+ * Drivers are often written to work w/o knowledge about the
+ * underlying irq chip implementation, so a request for a
+ * threaded irq without a primary hard irq context handler
+ * requires the ONESHOT flag to be set. Some irq chips like
+ * MSI based interrupts are per se one shot safe. Check the
+ * chip flags, so we can avoid the unmask dance at the end of
+ * the threaded handler for those.
+ */
+ if (desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)
+ new->flags &= ~IRQF_ONESHOT;
+
+ /*
* The following block of code has to be executed atomically
*/
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
@@ -1017,7 +1029,8 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
*/
new->thread_mask = 1 << ffz(thread_mask);
- } else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler) {
+ } else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler &&
+ !(desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)) {
/*
* The interrupt was requested with handler = NULL, so
* we use the default primary handler for it. But it