Re: [PATCH] uio/gen-pci: don't enable interrupts in ISR

["Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:04:13AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:46:06PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > As reported by Anthony in a short way:
> > 
> > |irq 17 handler uio_interrupt+0x0/0x68 enabled interrupts
> > |NIP [c0069d84] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x260/0x26c
> > 
> > The problem here is that spin_unlock_irq() enables the interrupts which
> > is a no-no in interrupt context because they always run with interrupts
> > disabled. This is the case even if IRQF_DISABLED has not been specified
> > since v2.6.35. Therefore this patch uses simple spin_locks().
> > 
> > Looking at it further here is only one spot where the lock is hold. So
> > giving the fact that an ISR is not reentrant and is not executed on two
> > cpus at the same time why do we need a lock here?
> 
> I'm not sure anymore. I think the idea was to use
> it for synchronization down the road somehow,
> but it never materialized. Let's drop that lock completely.

That sounds reasonable.

> 
> > The driver lacks of ->irqcontrol function so I guess the interrupt is
> > enabled via direct PCI-access in userland.
> 
> Through sysfs.

How? With /sys/devices/pci.../enable ?

Thanks,
Hans