linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:18:05 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default


> I missed that one ... thanks for not telling/CC'ing me and not fixing
> powerpc :-( (I know, everybody is supposed to have the bandwidth to read
> all of lkml... I don't).
> 
> We need to audit all of our PICs to make sure they can deal with
> disabling an already ack'ed interrupt, which isn't clear.. in fact, that
> might cause some to lose it when re-enabling later on. This is a major
> semantic change and now I just discover it while we are at -rc5 !
> 
> I'm concerned that quite a few PICs will not re-emit the interrupt once
> re-enabled.

Note that I'm not opposed to the change at all, I think it's a good
idea, I'm just worried I'm discovering it a bit late and I've seen PICs
broken in some many colorful ways that I'm a bit worried... Oh well...

Ben.


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