Re: Threaded interrupt handlers broken?

Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-17T11:03:57Z

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Ok, I added some more debugging code:
> > http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20090817-1219/patches/001-hack-threaded-irqs.patch
> >
> > Here's the result:
> > http://bu3sch.de/misc/dmesg2
> >
> > Is it possible that the irq_to_desc() in irq_thread() fails and the
> > resulting desc pointer points to something random? That could
> > probably explain why the bit is set and why the spinlock is
> > uninitialized. But it would not explain why desc->lock would still
> > work... Maybe irq_to_desc() returns a descriptor to another irq (!=
> > 52)?
>
> That would cause the whole irq code to fail. Can you send/upload your
> .config please ?

Also just add printk("desc: %p \n", desc); to the various places to
make sure that your pointers are correct.

Thanks,

tglx