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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] pci: fix unavailable irq number 255 reported by BIOS
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On 01/27/2016 08:25 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:48:25PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:


>>
>> Right. So we could certainly do something like this INVALID_IRQ thingy, but
>> that looks a bit weird. What would request_irq() return?
>>
>> If it returns success, then drivers might make the wrong decision. If it
>> returns an error code, then the i801 one works, but we might have to fix
>> others anyway.
>
> I was thinking request_irq() could return -EINVAL if the caller passed
> INVALID_IRQ. That should tell drivers that this interrupt won't work.
>
> We'd be making request_irq() return -EINVAL in some cases where it
> currently returns success. But even though it returns success today,
> I don't think the driver is getting interrupts, because the wire isn't
> connected.
>
>> I think it's better to have a software flag in pci_dev to indicate that there
>> is no irq line and fix up the (probably few) affected drivers so they avoid
>> calling request_irq() and take the right action.
>
> We could add an "irq_valid" flag in struct pci_dev and make a new
> rule that drivers should check dev->irq_valid before using dev->irq.
> But realistically, i801 is the only place that will check irq_valid
> because that's the only driver where we know about a problem, so that
> seems like sort of a point solution.
>
> Bjorn
>

How about using IRQ_BITMAP_BITS as that "irq_valid" flag? because it is
the ceiling of struct irq_desc irq_desc[], and request_irq() will return
-EINVAL in case of the ceiling.

#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
# define IRQ_BITMAP_BITS (NR_IRQS + 8196)
#else
# define IRQ_BITMAP_BITS NR_IRQS
#endif

> .
>

--
Yours Sincerely,

Cao jin


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