linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] synchronize

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:10 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] synchronize_irq needs a barrier


> >  - even when you ignore the interrupt (because the driver doesn't care, 
> >    it's suspending), you need to make sure the hardware gets shut up by 
> >    reading (or writing) the proper interrupt status register.
> >
> >    Otherwise, with a level interrupt, the interrupt will continue to be 
> >    held active ("screaming") and the CPU will get interrupted over and 
> >    over again, until the irq subsystem will just turn the irq off 
> >    entirely.
> 
> His suspend routine wrote to the IRQ mask (or equivalent) register in
> his code example, thus the HW should shut up eventually, thus that isn't
> strictly necessary, the IRQ in that case is just a "short
> interrupt" (noticed by the PIC and delivered but possibly not asserted
> anymore at this stage or about to go down).

In fact, he -must not- ack it. Because is the HW is really down (in D3),
got knows what accessing the ACK register will do. I can give you
ideas... from nothing on most x86 desktops to machine checks on most
powerpc machines, though I could imagine some cards bad enough to lock
your bus up if you try to access a register while they are in D3 (I've
seen some of those critters and it seems not all bridges timeout on
cards that just keep sending retries).

Cheers,
Ben.

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