linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: let pci_request_irq properly deal with threaded interrupts

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:54:20 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: let pci_request_irq properly deal with threaded interrupts

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> [+cc Thomas, Christoph, LKML]
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:03:42AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> If we have a threaded interrupt with the handler being NULL, then
>> request_threaded_irq() -> __setup_irq() will complain and bail out
>> if the IRQF_ONESHOT flag isn't set. Therefore check for the handler
>> being NULL and set IRQF_ONESHOT in this case.
>>
>> This change is needed to migrate the mei_me driver to
>> pci_alloc_irq_vectors() and pci_request_irq().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
>
> I'd like an ack from Thomas because this requirement about IRQF_ONESHOT
> usage isn't mentioned in the request_threaded_irq() function doc or
> Documentation/

 * IRQF_ONESHOT - Interrupt is not reenabled after the hardirq handler finished.
 *                Used by threaded interrupts which need to keep the
 *                irq line disabled until the threaded handler has been run.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko