Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability

Alan Stern
2005-04-26T17:15:16Z

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Grant Grundler wrote:

> Agreed - but this is a different problem than "shutting down IRQs".
> My point was arch specific code knows how to mask all IRQs.
> irq_disable() is expected to work regardless of what state the
> driver is in. On kexec "reboot", kernel drivers can unmask IRQs
> as they normally would during initialization. No?

One has to be careful when talking about enabling/disable IRQs, because
there are (at least) two choke points: one on the device and one on the
computer's interrupt controller. Masking IRQs takes place on the
controller, but I was talking about stopping interrupt requests at their
source on the device. It's the only way to avoid problems when IRQ lines
are shared.

Alan Stern