Hi,

Pawel Laszczak <paw...@cadence.com> writes:
>>>>> IRQF_ONESHOT can be used  only in threaded handled.
>>>>> "
>>>>>  * IRQF_ONESHOT - Interrupt is not reenabled after the hardirq handler 
>>>>> finished.
>>>>>  *                Used by threaded interrupts which need to keep the
>>>>>  *                irq line disabled until the threaded handler has been 
>>>>> run.
>>>>> "
>>>>
>>>>so?
>>>
>>> I don't understand why If I don't have threaded handler why I need 
>>> IRQF_ONESHOT.
>>> Why interrupt cannot be reenabled after hardirq handler finished ?
>>> I do not use threaded handler so this flag seem unnecessary.
>>
>>Unless this has changed over the years, it was a requirement from IRQ 
>>susbystem.
>>
>>      /*
>>       * Drivers are often written to work w/o knowledge about the
>>       * underlying irq chip implementation, so a request for a
>>       * threaded irq without a primary hard irq context handler
>>       * requires the ONESHOT flag to be set. Some irq chips like
>>       * MSI based interrupts are per se one shot safe. Check the
>>       * chip flags, so we can avoid the unmask dance at the end of
>>       * the threaded handler for those.
>>       */
>>      if (desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)
>>              new->flags &= ~IRQF_ONESHOT;
>
> From description I understand that it should be set when driver uses only 
> threaded handler without hard irq handler.
> eg. 
>
>       ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, data->usb_id_irq,
>                                       NULL, int3496_thread_isr,
>                                       IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_ONESHOT |
>                                       IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING |
>                                       IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING,
>                                       dev_name(dev), data);
>
> It make sense, we don't have hard irq handler so we can't clear source of 
> interrupt. 
> If we clear it immediately in interrupt controller then the same interrupt 
> could 
> be raised again, because it was not cleared e.g in controller register. 

You are correct. Big mistake on my side. Apologies.

-- 
balbi

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