Re: [PATCH v2 06/15] watchdog: orion: Remove unneeded BRIDGE_CAUSE clear

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:12:38PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:52:13PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > Clearing BRIDGE_CAUSE will only clear all currently pending upstream
> > > IRQs, of course. If WDT IRQ will be re-raised right after that in
> > > BRIDGE_CAUSE depends on the actual HW implementation, i.e. we do no
> > > clear the causing IRQ itself but just what it raised in BRIDGE_CAUSE.
> > 
> > Which is why it makes no sense to clear it one time at kernel start.
> > 
> 
> So, it seems we need to handle irq_startup(), as you suggested.
> I've just tested the attached patch, and it's working fine: the driver's
> probe() fully stops the watchdog, and then request_irq() acks and
> pending interrupts, through the added irq_startup().
> 
> How does it look?

Looks sane to me.

I looked some more and there are other drivers (eg irq-metag-ext) that
take this same approach.

Sebastian:
I looked at the irq-orion driver a bit more and noticed this:

        ret = irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips(domain, nrirqs, 1, np->name,
                             handle_level_irq, clr, 0, IRQ_GC_INIT_MASK_CACHE);
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Shouldn't it be handle_edge_irq? Otherwise who is calling irq_ack? How
does this work at all? :)

Jason