2.6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Daniel Barkalow At least some nforce cards continue to send legacy interrupts when MSI is enabled, and these interrupts are treated as unhandled by the kernel. This patch disables legacy interrupts explicitly when enabling MSI mode. The correct fix is to change the MSI infrastructure to disable legacy interrupts when enabling MSI, but this is potentially risky if the device isn't PCI-2.3 or is quirky, so the correct fix is going into mainline, while patches like this one go into -stable. Legend has it that it is most correct to disable legacy interrupts before enabling MSI, but the mainline patch does it in the other order, and this patch is "obviously" the same as mainline. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- The general patch got into mainline last night, and this patch is clearly the same as that one, limited to the case of forcedeth (the pci_intx() calls are lifted from {enable,disable}_msi_mode to all of the indirect callers in forcedeth). drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/drivers/net/forcedeth.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/drivers/net/forcedeth.c @@ -2692,11 +2692,13 @@ static int nv_request_irq(struct net_dev } if (ret != 0 && np->msi_flags & NV_MSI_CAPABLE) { if ((ret = pci_enable_msi(np->pci_dev)) == 0) { + pci_intx(np->pci_dev, 0); np->msi_flags |= NV_MSI_ENABLED; if ((!intr_test && request_irq(np->pci_dev->irq, &nv_nic_irq, IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, dev) != 0) || (intr_test && request_irq(np->pci_dev->irq, &nv_nic_irq_test, IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, dev) != 0)) { printk(KERN_INFO "forcedeth: request_irq failed %d\n", ret); pci_disable_msi(np->pci_dev); + pci_intx(np->pci_dev, 1); np->msi_flags &= ~NV_MSI_ENABLED; goto out_err; } @@ -2739,6 +2741,7 @@ static void nv_free_irq(struct net_devic free_irq(np->pci_dev->irq, dev); if (np->msi_flags & NV_MSI_ENABLED) { pci_disable_msi(np->pci_dev); + pci_intx(np->pci_dev, 1); np->msi_flags &= ~NV_MSI_ENABLED; } } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/