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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Boot IRQ quirks and rerouting
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > It does matter. When the interrupt is _not_ handled then it comes back
> > immediately for ever and after a while the kernel decides to disable
> > the legacy int, because nobody cares about the interrupt.
>
> Mental shortcut, sorry -- making the interrupt be discarded through the
> primary rather than the secondary, etc. I/O APIC does not change anything.
> Based on the description of the problem, the interupt will just have to be
> delivered somewhere, so I see little purpose in complicating the routing
> and causing additional sharing just to discard the interrupt elsewhere
> anyway. If INTx messages cannot be blocked on the way anywhere, then the
> originating I/O APIC should never get its inputs masked and the handler
> should take care of the unwanted interrupts there. This is at least my
> opinion.

There is no way to take care of an unwanted interrupt when there is no
handler which knows to deal with the device.

The problem case is mostly preempt-rt, where we receive the interrupt,
mask it and wake up the handler thread. We can not leave it unmasked
for obvious reasons.

> BTW, it could be possible to mask the interrupt by fiddling with the
> vector used and the TPR instead -- we have a range of low-priority vectors
> which are never used for APIC interrupts, so the TPR may be hardcoded to
> some non-zero value for all systems and then for the problematic chipsets
> handlers may change vectors to mask or unmask APIC interrupts. This would
> have to be verified on actual hardware and be conditional as it is likely
> to cause troubles for systems using serial interrupt delivery over the
> inter-APIC bus (the vector, delivery mode, etc. are generally not meant to
> be changed with the input unmasked for these chips -- which just shows how
> braindead the idea of the mask having side effects is). Just a thought.

I tried this already and it results in extremly strange and randomly
changing behaviour up to a full system lockup :(

Thanks,

tglx


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