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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] ahci: give another shot at clearing all bits in irq_stat
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:45:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4870CC94.8090504@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486EF44A.20400@kernel.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Commit ea0c62f7cf70f13a67830471b613337bd0c9a62e tried to clear all
> bits in irq_stat but it didn't actually achieve that as irq_stat was
> anded with port_map right after read.  This patch makes ahci driver
> always use the unmasked value to clear irq_status.
> 
> While at it, add explanation on the peculiarities of ahci IRQ
> clearing.
> 
> This was spotted by Linus Torvalds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> The original report requires further investigation regarding why the
> bogus change fixed the problem but this change is the correct thing to
> do regardless.
> 
> Thanks.

Belated post-holiday ACK (since it's already in).

Thanks for taking care of this, and good catch too.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04 13:10 [git patches] libata fixes for .26 Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-05  3:13   ` Tejun Heo
2008-07-05  3:18     ` Tejun Heo
2008-07-05  4:10       ` [PATCH #upstream-fixes] ahci: give another shot at clearing all bits in irq_stat Tejun Heo
2008-07-06 13:45         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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