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From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/bcm2836: Prevent spurious interrupts
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:52:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmy4qxnb.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610281257230.4896@nanos>

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Eric Anholt wrote:
>
>> From: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
>> 
>> The old arch-specific IRQ macros included a dsb to ensure the
>> write to clear the mailbox interrupt completed before returning
>> from the interrupt. The BCM2836 irqchip driver needs the same
>> precaution to avoid spurious interrupts.
>
> This is missing a fixes tag. I have no idea when that problem was
> introduced, so I have no way to decide whether this needs to be tagged
> stable or not.

This code has been there since introduction of the driver, so:

Fixes: 1a15aaa998dc ("irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry Pi 2")

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 18:20 [PATCH v2] irqchip/bcm2836: Prevent spurious interrupts Eric Anholt
2016-10-28 11:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 15:52   ` Eric Anholt [this message]
2016-10-28 19:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 17:58       ` Eric Anholt
2016-10-31 18:16         ` Thomas Gleixner

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