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
next prev parent 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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