Re: Threaded interrupt handlers broken?

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Sunday 16 August 2009 12:14:36 Michael Buesch wrote:
> I need the following patch for threaded IRQs to work.
> The first hunk obviously is incorrect. But without it the thread_fn is
> never called.
> 
> Index: wireless-testing/kernel/irq/manage.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/kernel/irq/manage.c	2009-08-15 22:22:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/kernel/irq/manage.c	2009-08-16 14:05:23.000000000 +0200
> @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ static int irq_thread(void *data)
>  		atomic_inc(&desc->threads_active);
>  
>  		spin_lock_irq(&desc->lock);
> -		if (unlikely(desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED)) {
> +		if (0&&unlikely(desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED)) {

So the interrupt is marked disabled. How do you setup the handler ?
And what does the primary handler do ? Can you post your driver code please?
>  			/*
>  			 * CHECKME: We might need a dedicated
>  			 * IRQ_THREAD_PENDING flag here, which
> @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static int irq_thread(void *data)
>  			action->thread_fn(action->irq, action->dev_id);
>  		}
>  
> -		wake = atomic_dec_and_test(&desc->threads_active);
> +		wake = !atomic_dec_and_test(&desc->threads_active);

So you wake when the thread counter is != 0 after the decrement.

 #define atomic_dec_and_test(v) (atomic_sub_return(1, (v)) == 0)

Thanks,

	tglx
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