Re: [PATCH PREEMPT_RT]: On AT91 ARM: GPIO Interrupt handling can/will stall forever

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 07:25 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 10:11 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Thomas,
> > 
> > Can you ACK or NACK this patch.  I know you play with a bunch of
> > hardware that this patch may affect.
> > 
> 
> My two cents, I think it's needed (or something like it).. It looks like
> handle_simple_irq normally expects a custom cascade type handler to
> unmask on return. When you switch to a threaded handler the cascade
> handler is gone and can't unmask..

I take this back .. The comment at the top of handle_simple_irq() is,

 *      Note: The caller is expected to handle the ack, clear, mask and
 *      unmask issues if necessary.


So we shouldn't need any flow control unless there is some other
factors.. 

Additionally, we have a patch in the real time tree called
"irq-mask-fix.patch" which adds an "unmask" to handle_simple_irq, but as
the note says we don't need flow control..

Daniel