* Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-08 19:18]: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:19:32AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > * Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-30 10:48]: > > > > > > handle_edge_irq() already makes sure that desc->action is not null, still > > > note_interrupt() is receiving desc->action as null, that's strange. On my > > > system this is happening for irq 4 and /proc/interrupt shows that it is > > > coming from "serial". > > > > Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce this here. Vivek, do you have time > > to take a look at this at your site? For the meanwhile, should I > > create a patch that checks for desc->action in note_interrupt(), too? > > I can reproduce this problem only on one machine. I think there is some > race condition and your code somehow just exposes it.
thanks for finding that out. Could you try/review out the patch below? As the lock is only aquired when irqfixup == 2 it shouldn't impact performance of a 'normal' system. Thanks, Bernhard --- kernel/irq/spurious.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/irq/spurious.c +++ b/kernel/irq/spurious.c @@ -145,10 +145,20 @@ void note_interrupt(unsigned int irq, st } if (unlikely(irqfixup)) { - /* Don't punish working computers */ - if ((irqfixup == 2 && ((irq == 0) || - (desc->action->flags & IRQF_IRQPOLL))) || - action_ret == IRQ_NONE) { + int call_misrouted_irq = action_ret == IRQ_NONE; + + if (!call_misrouted_irq && irqfixup == 2) { + if (irq == 0) + call_misrouted_irq = 1; + else { + spin_lock(&desc->lock); + if (desc->action && (desc->action->flags & IRQF_IRQPOLL)) + call_misrouted_irq = 1; + spin_unlock(&desc->lock); + } + } + + if (call_misrouted_irq) { int ok = misrouted_irq(irq); if (action_ret == IRQ_NONE) desc->irqs_unhandled -= ok; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/