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Message-ID: <CANk1AXTcZU-xbdw0RTFxtLv38Wb33xkTWa8CPu0vce4ZpUcxEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:57:57 -0500
From:	delicious quinoa <delicious.quinoa@...il.com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>, Alan Tull <atull@...era.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] gpio: dwapb: drop irq_setup_generic_chip()

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
> The driver calls irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips() which creates a gc and
> adds it to gc_list. The driver later then calls irq_setup_generic_chip()
> which also initializes the gc and adds it to the gc_list() and this
> corrupts the list. Enable LIST_DEBUG and you see the kernel complain.
> This isn't required, irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips() did the init.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> index ed5711f..4d25a06b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> @@ -260,9 +260,6 @@ static void dwapb_configure_irqs(struct dwapb_gpio *gpio,
>         ct->regs.ack = GPIO_PORTA_EOI;
>         ct->regs.mask = GPIO_INTMASK;
>
> -       irq_setup_generic_chip(irq_gc, IRQ_MSK(port->bgc.gc.ngpio),
> -                       IRQ_GC_INIT_NESTED_LOCK, IRQ_NOREQUEST, 0);
> -
>         irq_set_chained_handler(irq, dwapb_irq_handler);
>         irq_set_handler_data(irq, gpio);
>
> --
> 1.9.1


I've tested this patch.  It does fix a problem that was making the
kernel hang while going down for a reboot.

Alan
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