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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: Problem with 2.6.17-mm2
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:38:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151257123.25491.404.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060625103246.a309d67b.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So in fact this just silently acks spurious interrupts which have an
> > hw_irq_controller assigned. If there is no action, then nothing has
> > called setup_irq/request_irq for this interrupt line and therefor it is
> > an spurious interrupt which should not happen.
> > 
> > 
> > genirq makes these visible and informs noisily about those events. 
> > 
> 
> hm, OK.  I guess we can let it ride for now.  Later we can decide whether
> we need to shut that warning up.  I suspect we should, if the machine's
> working OK.

We can make it once per IRQ. 

In fact I think the original behaviour is a BUG. You have no chance to
notice that your box gets flooded by such interrupts. With my willingly
asserted spurious interrupts the box simply stalls in a flood of
interrupts without any notice.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-25 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-25 10:35 Problem with 2.6.17-mm2 Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-06-25 10:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-25 10:55   ` Ralf Hildebrandt
     [not found]     ` <20060626074226.7B251E0035AE@knarzkiste.dyndns.org>
2006-06-25 15:41     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-06-26  7:44       ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-06-26  7:58         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-06-25 11:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-25 11:53   ` Ralf Hildebrandt
2006-06-25 17:24   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-06-25 17:32     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-25 17:38       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2006-06-25 19:46         ` Ingo Molnar

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