From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: irq_disable() not working
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:20:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222161634.12085.138.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D8B214.2050706@grandegger.com>
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:08 +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how irq_disable() is supposed to work on
> PowerPC systems. Most PowerPC PIC do *not* implement the enable and
> disable, but just the unmask and mask methods, e.g:
>
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.26.5/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c#L867
>
> The irq_disable() function will then call the default function
> default_disable():
>
> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.26.5/kernel/irq/chip.c#L234
>
> which does not *nothing*. I do not see how the interrupt gets disabled
> on the hardware level. Obviously I have missed something. TIA for
> clarification.
Lazy masking ? ie, look what happens if the irq happens while disabled.
Ben.
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2008-09-23 9:08 irq_disable() not working Wolfgang Grandegger
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