linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/11] irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Eliminate bad IRQ check

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:58:50 -0700
From:	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	mbizon@...ebox.fr, jogo@...nwrt.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/11] irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Eliminate bad IRQ check

This check may be prone to race conditions, e.g.

1) Some external event (e.g. GPIO level) causes an IRQ to become pending
2) Peripheral asserts the L2 IRQ
3) CPU takes an interrupt
4) The event from #1 goes away
5) bcm7120_l2_intc_irq_handle() reads back a 0 status

Unlike the hardware supported by brcmstb-l2, the bcm7120-l2 controller
does not latch the IRQ status.  Bits can change if the inputs to the
controller change.  Also, do_bad_IRQ() is an ARM-specific macro.

So let's just nuke it.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>
---
 drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
index b9f4fb8..49d8f3d 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@
 
 #include "irqchip.h"
 
-#include <asm/mach/irq.h>
-
 /* Register offset in the L2 interrupt controller */
 #define IRQEN		0x00
 #define IRQSTAT		0x04
@@ -51,19 +49,12 @@ static void bcm7120_l2_intc_irq_handle(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
 	chained_irq_enter(chip, desc);
 
 	status = __raw_readl(b->base + IRQSTAT);
-
-	if (status == 0) {
-		do_bad_IRQ(irq, desc);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	do {
 		irq = ffs(status) - 1;
 		status &= ~(1 << irq);
 		generic_handle_irq(irq_find_mapping(b->domain, irq));
 	} while (status);
 
-out:
 	chained_irq_exit(chip, desc);
 }
 
-- 
2.1.1

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