On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:46:38AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Ah ok. This is the multi-irq handler case? Has this been broken since > v3.2 at least for the gic users? Now that we call irq_enter()/irq_exit() > a lot more code runs, including things like updating jiffies when > interrupts arrive and invoking softirq? Do we only call irq_exit() on > the IPI path otherwise? > > Are there any plans to send this back to stable trees? Not calling > irq_enter()/irq_exit() when we get an interrupt seems like a big problem.
gic_handle_irq() calls handle_IRQ() which has the irq_enter()..irq_exit() wrappers. If we didn't have irq_exit(), then softirq's would be totally broken on all gic-based platforms. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
