Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2011 21:09:32 +0200 | From | Ido Yariv <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization |
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Hi Thomas,
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:21:46AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > I can see your problem, but this might lead to threads_active leaks > under certain conditions. desc->threads_active was only meant to deal > with shared interrupts. > > We explicitely allow a design where the primary handler can leave the > device interrupt enabled and allow further interrupts to occur while > the handler is running. We only have a single bit to note that the > thread should run, but your wakeup would up the threads_active count > in that scenario several times w/o a counterpart which decrements it. > > The solution for this is to keep the current threads_active semantics > and make the wait function different. Instead of waiting for > threads_active to become 0 it should wait for threads_active == 0 and > the IRQTF_RUNTHREAD for all actions to be cleared. To avoid looping > over the actions, we can take a similar approach as we take with the > desc->threads_oneshot bitfield.
Thanks for reviewing this.
I might be missing something, but I don't see any potential threads_active leaks in this approach. We wont increase threads_active if IRQTF_RUNTHREAD was already set beforehand (as test_and_set_bit() will return 1).
If irq_wake_thread is called multiple times before irq_thread has had a chance to run, threads_active will only be increased once and decreased back when IRQTF_RUNTHREAD is cleared.
Am I missing something? If not, do you see any other issues with this implementation?
Thanks, Ido.
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