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SubjectRe: [PATCH] irq: always set IRQF_ONESHOT if no primary handler is specified
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Hi there,

Let me report that with this change Beagle board fails to boot,
hangs right on rootfs mount.

Users of BB should revert this until the offending driver(s) are fixed.

Regards

-- Pantelis

On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> If no primary handler is specified then a default one is assigned which
> always returns IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. This handler requires the IRQF_ONESHOT
> flag on LEVEL / EIO typed irqs because the source of interrupt is not
> disabled.
> Since it is required for those users and there is no difference for others
> it makes sense to add this flag unconditionally.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> ---
> A quick grep shows that drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7816.c is the only
> driver in tree doing it wrong i.e. request_threaded_irq with
> IRQF_TRIGGER_{LOW|HIGH} but without ONEHOST.
>
> There are 59 users in tree which request an edge typed interrupt. 24 of
> them specify the ONEHOST flag the others don't. Both variants are valid
> and identical but a consistent behavior would be nice.
>
> There is a total of 134 users and 87 specify the irq type directly. For
> the remaining 47 the type depends on initial configuration of the irq chip
> or it might be specified via the device tree, dunno.
> Should that patch be accepted I suggest to remove the ONESHOT flag from
> every request_th.* which uses NULL as the primary handler so we have a
> consistent behavior here.
>
> kernel/irq/manage.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> index 0a7840ae..3f9cd47 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
> @@ -1322,6 +1322,7 @@ int request_threaded_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
> if (!thread_fn)
> return -EINVAL;
> handler = irq_default_primary_handler;
> + irqflags |= IRQF_ONESHOT;
> }
>
> action = kzalloc(sizeof(struct irqaction), GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 1.7.4.4
>
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