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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: dayu@datangmobile.cn
Cc: leoli@freescale.com, galak@kernel.crashing.org,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix the interrupt loss problem on powerpc IPIC (2.6.25-2.6.28)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:43:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218024312.GA14848@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D728AD1FA2543948B89DE29C5BF4CD0716AC37FD@bjmail1.bj.datangmobile.com>

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:16:07AM +0800, dayu@datangmobile.cn wrote:
> From: Da Yu <dayu@datangmobile.cn>
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:58:20 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] fix the interrupt loss problem on powerpc IPIC (2.6.25-2.6.28)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Da Yu <dayu@datangmobile.cn>

Still no proper explanation in the patch.

Also, with this change, is 'temp' really needed, or can you just pass in the
mask by hand?


-Olof

> ---
> 
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c	2009-02-18 09:47:04.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c	2009-02-18 09:46:34.000000000 +0800
> @@ -568,8 +568,7 @@ static void ipic_ack_irq(unsigned int vi
> 
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&ipic_lock, flags);
> 
> -	temp = ipic_read(ipic->regs, ipic_info[src].ack);
> -	temp |= (1 << (31 - ipic_info[src].bit));
> +	temp = 1 << (31 - ipic_info[src].bit);
>  	ipic_write(ipic->regs, ipic_info[src].ack, temp);
> 
>  	/* mb() can't guarantee that ack is finished.  But it does finish


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18  2:16 [PATCH] fix the interrupt loss problem on powerpc IPIC (2.6.25-2.6.28) dayu
2009-02-18  2:43 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-18  5:47 [PATCH] fix the interrupt loss problem on powerpc IPIC(2.6.25-2.6.28) dayu
2009-02-19 16:41 ` Kumar Gala

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