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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: "Matt Fleming" <mjf@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] HPET: Enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:53:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5htzafr07t.wl%tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ff4a1e50811021423l795dd059v3d1667fb4bc9539c@mail.gmail.com>

At Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:23:13 +0000,
Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> 2008/11/2 Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Combining IRQF_DISABLED and IRQF_SHARED does not reliably disable
> > interrupts in the handler. Perhaps IRQF_SHARED should be removed at
> > the same time?
> >
> 
> I didn't know that. Under what conditions is it unreliable?

The kernel checks IRQF_DISABLED bit of only the first handler
even if multiple handlers are assigned to a single IRQ line.
Thus, if another handler without IRQF_DISABLED has been already
registered before yours, your IRQF_DISABLED is ignored.

See kernel/irq/handle.c.


Takashi

      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-10 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02 16:04 [PATCH 1/3] HPET: Convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE Matt Fleming
2008-11-02 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] HPET: Enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled Matt Fleming
2008-11-02 16:04   ` [PATCH 3/3] HPET: Read from HPET_Tn_CMP() not HPET_T0_CMP Matt Fleming
2008-11-09 10:33     ` Matt Fleming
2008-11-10 16:40       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-02 21:35   ` [PATCH 2/3] HPET: Enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled Will Newton
2008-11-02 22:23     ` Matt Fleming
2008-11-10 16:53       ` Takashi Iwai [this message]

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