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Message-ID: <1345680175.15245.15.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 01:02:55 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 40/46] KVM: PIC: call ack notifiers for irqs that are dropped
form irr
On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 20:59 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>
> 3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
>
> (cherry picked from commit aea218f3cbbcaac249b6b2c98930a00d6d931f1e)
>
> After commit 242ec97c358256 PIT interrupts are no longer delivered after
> PIC reset. It happens because PIT injects interrupt only if previous one
> was acked, but since on PIC reset it is dropped from irr it will never
> be delivered and hence acknowledged. Fix that by calling ack notifier on
> PIC reset.
[...]
Based on the commit blamed for the regression, I think this is needed
for 3.4 as well.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
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