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Message-ID: <20090114114006.GF8625@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:40:06 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>,
Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...e.de>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
Olaf Dabrunz <od@...e.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: PCI, ACPI, IRQ, IOAPIC: reroute PCI interrupt to legacy boot
interrupt equivalent
* Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:47 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
> > > a number of mainline drivers also mask/unmask irqs from within the IRQ
> > > handler. It's not particularly smart in a native driver, but can happen -
> > > and if we get an active line after that point (and this can happen because
> > > the driver is active), we are in trouble.
> >
> > Yep. Right now it might be simpler to fix the mainline drivers.
>
> Taking the easy option now doesn't make the pain go away later :) Just
> because ACPI doesn't provide a handy description doesn't mean we
> shouldn't handle "boot interrupts" - the kernel is riddled with quirks
> already to deal with broken, buggy, or just quirky hardware scenarios.
>
> > We are outside the descriptions provided by ACPI so it requires
> > chipset specific knowledge, and a general understanding of how
> > chipsets work to actually even comprehend the problem.
>
> But how does that differ from most other chipset code? I'm not being
> belligerent but I'm not seeing how your argument is uniquely special to
> this particular situation. Personally, I'm a little biased because I'd
> eventually like to see RT merged upstream and I /know/ that's going to
> re-open this whole can of worms once again, even if it's "fixed" now.
it's not just -rt, but it is also needed for the concept of threaded IRQ
handlers - which was discussed at the Kernel Summit to be desired for
mainline.
Ingo
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