netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: cpsw: fix hangs with interrupts

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Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:19:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	balbi@...com
Cc:	mugunthanvnm@...com, yegorslists@...glemail.com,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: cpsw: fix hangs with interrupts

From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 16:15:59 -0600

> The CPSW IP implements pulse-signaled interrupts. Due to
> that we must write a correct, pre-defined value to the
> CPDMA_MACEOIVECTOR register so the controller generates
> a pulse on the correct IRQ line to signal the End Of
> Interrupt.
> 
> The way the driver is written today, all four IRQ lines
> are requested using the same IRQ handler and, because of
> that, we could fall into situations where a TX IRQ fires
> but we tell the controller that we ended an RX IRQ (or
> vice-versa). This situation triggers an IRQ storm on the
> reserved IRQ 127 of INTC which will in turn call ack_bad_irq()
> which will, then, print a ton of:
 ...
> Reported-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@...glemail.com>
> Fixes: 510a1e7 (drivers: net: davinci_cpdma: acknowledge interrupt properly)
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v3.9+
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>

Applied, thanks.
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