Re: Linux 2.6.39 on Cavium CN38xx

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:20:42PM -0400, Guenter Roeck wrote:
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> Hi David,
> 
> Turns out my primary problem is that octeon_irq_setup_secondary_ciu()
> sets C0_STATUS to 0x1000efe0, ie all interrupts except IP4 are enabled.
> This mask is primarily set through octeon_irq_percpu_enable(), which
> sets C0_STATUS to 0x1000e3e0. The value differs from CPU 0, where
> C0_STATUS is set to 0x10008ce0.
> 
> This causes persistent spurious interrupts on our boards (both with
> CN38xx and CN58xx), where C0_CAUSE persistently reads as zero in the
> interrupt handling code but interrupts are triggered anyway. The
> spurious interrupt problem goes away if I mask out IP0, IP1, IP5, and
> IP6 at the end of octeon_irq_setup_secondary_ciu().
> 
Answering part of my own question: The interrupt enable bits for secondary CPUs
are all set through octeon_irq_core_eoi(), which is called from the per-CPU
initialization code and enables each interrupt even if "desired_en" is false
for a given bit. I modified octeon_irq_core_eoi() to

	if (cd->desired_en)
                set_c0_status(0x100 << cd->bit); 

which takes care of the problem. No idea if that is correct, though.

The actual interrupt causing trouble and spurious interrupts in my case is,
oddly enough, STATUSF_IP0. So far I have been unable to track down how that
is triggered; I don't see the bit being set set in C0_CAUSE anywhere.

Are there any means to trigger an IP0 interrupt other than by writing STATUSF_IP0 
into the C0_CAUSE register ?

Thanks,
Guenter