linux-kernel - Re: [patch 08/12] MIPS/alchemy: Remove pointless irqdisable/enable

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:16:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...il.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 08/12] MIPS/alchemy: Remove pointless irqdisable/enable

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Manuel Lauss wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > bcsr_csc_handler() is a cascading interrupt handler. It has a
> > disable_irq_nosync()/enable_irq() pair around the generic_handle_irq()
> > call. The value of this disable/enable is zero because its a complete
> > noop:
> >
> > disable_irq_nosync() merily increments the disable count without
> > actually masking the interrupt. enable_irq() soleley decrements the
> > disable count without touching the interrupt chip. The interrupt
> > cannot arrive again because the complete call chain runs with
> > interrupts disabled.
> >
> > Remove it.
> 
> Is there another patch this one depends on?  The DB1300 board doesn't

No.

> boot (i.e. interrupts from the cpld aren't serviced) with this patch applied:
> (irq 136 is the first serviced by the bcsr cpld):
> 
> irq 136: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)

That's weird. Looking deeper, enable_irq() actually calls
chip->unmask() unconditionally. So it seems the chip is sensitive to
that.

Does the following patch on top fix things again?

Thanks,

	tglx
----
diff --git a/arch/mips/alchemy/devboards/bcsr.c b/arch/mips/alchemy/devboards/bcsr.c
index 3a24f2d6ecfd..ec47abe580c6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/alchemy/devboards/bcsr.c
+++ b/arch/mips/alchemy/devboards/bcsr.c
@@ -88,8 +88,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bcsr_mod);
 static void bcsr_csc_handler(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *d)
 {
 	unsigned short bisr = __raw_readw(bcsr_virt + BCSR_REG_INTSTAT);
+	struct irq_chip *chip = irq_desc_get_chip(d);
 
+	chained_irq_enter(chip, d);
 	generic_handle_irq(bcsr_csc_base + __ffs(bisr));
+	chained_irq_exit(chip, d);
 }
 
 static void bcsr_irq_mask(struct irq_data *d)
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