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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	vignaud@xandmail.fr, marcin.slusarz@gmail.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2: WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:70 check_irq_resend()
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:30:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070810083050.GA4545@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070810082346.GD1764@ff.dom.local>


* Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> wrote:

> > Hmm. This solution is still just pampering over the real problem. 
> > The delayed disable just re-sends level interrupts unnecessarily. I 
> > have a fix (needs some testing) for this, which I send out tomorrow, 
> > when I'm really back from vacation.
> > 
> > But suppressing the resend is not fixing the driver problem. The 
> > problem can show up with spurious interrupts and with interrupts on 
> > a shared PCI interrupt line at any time. It just might take weeks 
> > instead of minutes.
> 
> Doesn't it look like a little change of mind? [...]

what change of mind do you mean exactly?

> [...] Well, there are probably (but need more testing) two other 
> solutions: _SW_RESEND and disabling without delay for levels only...

IIRC Marcin tested software-resend and it didnt fix the hang. That 
strongly points in the direction of a driver bug (or a genirq bug) being 
made more prominent by the genirq change - not any hardware detail such 
as the APIC vector-retrigger sequence.

While we'd like to see the suspected driver bug (or any higher level 
genirq bug) fixed, we'll undo the effect of the genirq change (because 
it is causing a regression). We'll also add a separate, optional 
irq-debugging feature that generates high-rate interrupts on any shared 
irq line. (and thus artificially stresses the robustness of the driver 
and the genirq layer against spurious interrupts.)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-10  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-09 15:03 2.6.23-rc2: WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:70 check_irq_resend() John Stoffel
2007-08-09 15:54 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10  8:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-10  8:23     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10  8:30       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-10  8:49         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10  8:56           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-10  9:12             ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10  9:33               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-10 10:05                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-10 10:16                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-13  7:13                     ` Marcin Ślusarz
2007-08-10 10:13                 ` Stephen Hemminger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-10 12:27 Jean-Baptiste Vignaud
2007-08-10 11:35 Jean-Baptiste Vignaud
2007-08-08 18:09 2.6.23-rc2: WARNING " Indan Zupancic

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