Re: [PATCH V2 08/15] irqchip: bcm7120-l2: Eliminate bad IRQ check

From: Kevin Cernekee
Date: Thu Oct 30 2014 - 15:24:43 EST


On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
>> b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
>> index b9f4fb8..49d8f3d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm7120-l2.c
>
> [...]
>>
>> @@ -51,19 +49,12 @@ static void bcm7120_l2_intc_irq_handle(unsigned int
>> irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
>> chained_irq_enter(chip, desc);
>>
>> status = __raw_readl(b->base + IRQSTAT);
>> -
>> - if (status == 0) {
>> - do_bad_IRQ(irq, desc);
>> - goto out;
>> - }
>> -
>> do {
>
>
> I think this needs to now become:
>
> while (status) {
>
>> irq = ffs(status) - 1;
>> status &= ~(1 << irq);
>
>
> In case 'status' is 0, 'irq' will be equal to -1. How does the shift by
> negative value work?
>
>> generic_handle_irq(irq_find_mapping(b->domain, irq));
>> } while (status);

That's a good point. We need to check for 0 somehow.

This code gets replaced in patch 13/15 anyway, but I'll fix it in the
next round.

Thanks!
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