linux-kernel - Re: Nobody cared about IRQs at shutdown

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Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:26:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nobody cared about IRQs at shutdown

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> > One last test.  What happens if you unbind the firewire driver and all
> > the UHCI controllers except the one attached to IRQ 16?
> 
> As I was not sure if you mean 16 or 19, I did two tests. In both cases, 
> the firewire driver and all UHCI controllers except one were unbound. In 
> both cases, the system printed the line I added to uhci_hc_died(), 
> reported a bad IRQ (16 and 19, respectively), waited, displayed SATA 
> errors, waited again, and powered itself off. I.e., the screenshot is 
> nearly identical to what I sent earlier.
> 
> 
> > Possible explanations: IRQs are being misrouted, so the system thinks
> > it gets IRQ 16 when in fact a different interrupt line was activated
> > (this is related to ACPI, but I don't see any connection to systemd).
> > Or the interrupt layer is malfunctioning and it thinks IRQs are
> > arriving when they aren't.
> 
> I forgot to mention that only shutdown is problematic, reboots are OK.

Well, I'm baffled.  I don't see how the problem could be coming from
the drivers, which implies it must be in a more central part of the
kernel.  The fact that the bad IRQs arrived on the expected lines
indicates that they are not being misrouted.

Alan Stern

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