linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: do not try to assign irq 255

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Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:54:52 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@....ac.be>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	David Haerdeman <david@...deman.nu>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Grover <agrover@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: do not try to assign irq 255

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Sarah Sharp
<sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 02/27/2013 10:13 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> >[+cc Andy]
>> >
>> >3) I don't understand why the xhci init fails in the first place.  It
>> >looks like the "request interrupt 255 failed" message is from
>> >xhci_try_enable_msi(), but that function tries to enable MSI-X, then
>> >MSI, then falls back to legacy interrupts, where we get the error.
>> >But the device supports MSI, so I don't know why we even fall back to
>> >trying legacy interrupts.  Hannes, do you have any insight into that?
>> >Obviously I'm missing something here.
>> >
>> Hehe. Due to overly clever design.
>> xhci actually sets up interrupts _twice_, once per request_irq() in
>> the generic code and a second time during xhci_run.
>> But as the first call fails it'll never ever run the second part.
>>
>> I'll be sending a patch.
>
> Something like this?
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=132972894117916&w=2
>
> (Apparently we had this issue around the same time last year, but we
> thought the BIOS bug had been resolved.)
>
> Sarah Sharp

Where are we at with this?  I don't see Sarah's patch in the tree, and
I haven't applied any changes, so my guess is this is still broken.

Bjorn
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