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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] declance: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 09:34:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260507073427.atoJ5zsY@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2605060040230.46195@angie.orcam.me.uk>

On 2026-05-06 10:25:02 [+0100], Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2026, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> > I'm not if sure if you may need to change the primary handler if the
> > interrupt flow is EOI and cascading based on what you wrote. If you have
> > access to the HW then you it should be easy to test given the
> > `threadirqs' argument should expose problems.
> 
>  The interrupt is exceedingly rare, I've only seen it actually fire maybe 
> a dozen times across all my systems in 25+ years.  It happens when there 
> is a memory read error on DMA, such as an uncorrected ECC or parity error 
> (depending on the system variant), or a bus timeout.

I assumed you have other interrupts on that hw, cascaded/ operating the
same way. But otherwise…

>  It should be possible to orchestrate it, such as by making the LANCE DMA 
> pointer register refer an unpopulated location in the system address map; 
> memory ECC errors can be induced too by the DRAM controller's diagnostic 
> feature.  It seems enough hassle though I'd rather get things right by the 
> spec.

Oh, yeah. That should do it.

>  Thanks for the hint as to the `threadirqs' facility though, it may come 
> up helpful sometime.

:)

>   Maciej

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-07  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-27 13:53 [PATCH net-next v2] declance: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-01-27 15:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-01-27 16:54   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-01-27 18:35     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-03-29 20:27       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-04 22:35         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-05  7:29           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-05 12:02             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-05 12:32               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-05 14:00                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-05 15:24                   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-06  9:25                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-05-07  7:34                       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-05-07 11:45                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-01-29  3:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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