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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: better leve triggered IRQ management needed
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:41:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060424114105.113eecac@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

I am seeing repeated problems with misconfigured systems that have shared IRQ
devices configured for edge-triggered. Also, network devices using NAPI won't
work reliably on edge-triggered IRQ's.  The kernel IRQ architecture doesn't
have sufficient information to detect this at boot time.  
We should fail request_irq() if the SA_SHIRQ but the irq is edge-triggered.

Right now the concept of level vs edge triggered is buried in things like ELCR for old
PIC, and other stuff for IO-APIC.  There is a IRQ_LEVEL flag in the descriptor field
but nothing sets it or uses it.

Haven't even looked at non i386 arch's but probably even more confusion there.


             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-24 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-24 18:41 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-04-24 18:59 ` better leve triggered IRQ management needed linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-24 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 19:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 19:53     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-24 20:16       ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 20:43         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-24 21:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 21:20             ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 22:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 21:22             ` [RFC 1/2] irq: record edge-level setting Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-24 21:49               ` Alan Cox
2006-04-24 21:41                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-24 22:34                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 22:58                     ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]             ` <20060424141926.3872f921@localhost.localdomain>
2006-04-24 21:22               ` [RFC 2/2] warn on shared edge-triggered irq Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 15:23             ` better leve triggered IRQ management needed Michael Buesch
2006-04-24 19:15   ` Russell King
2006-04-24 20:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 19:25   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-24 19:35   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-24 20:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-24 20:50       ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-24 21:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-29 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-29 21:58   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-30  4:48     ` Neil Brown
2006-04-30  5:19       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-30  6:13         ` Neil Brown
2006-04-30  6:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-02  5:10             ` Neil Brown
2006-05-02 15:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-30  7:36       ` Arjan van de Ven

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