linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 06/27] irq_domain/powerpc: eliminate irq_map; use irq_alloc

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:33:16 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/27] irq_domain/powerpc: eliminate irq_map; use
 irq_alloc_desc() instead

On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:13 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 14:27 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> writes:
> > 
> > > It's arguable that this irq_set_irq_type(,NONE) shouln't be there but
> > > still ... it's been around for ever and things worked :-) So something
> > > -else- is causing the problem and I'd like to understand what exactly.
> > 
> > AFAICS before a09b659cd68c10ec6a30cb91ebd2c327fcd5bfe5
> > irq_set_irq_type(,NONE) was actually a no-op.
> 
> So I'm still a bit baffled... ie, I understand some of what's happening
> but not why it breaks things, I haven't yet managed to reproduce but I
> haven't tried too hard just yet (was away from the HW) :

Allright, I have a repro-case, I'll dig.

Cheers,
Ben.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/