Re: [PATCH] irqchip: omap-intc: fix spurious irq handling

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 06:14:17 EST


On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> + /*
> + * A spurious IRQ can result if interrupt that triggered the
> + * sorting is no longer active during the sorting (10 INTC
> + * functional clock cycles after interrupt assertion). Or a
> + * change in interrupt mask affected the result during sorting
> + * time. There is no special handling required except ignoring
> + * the SIR register value just read and retrying.
> + * See section 6.2.5 of AM335x TRM Literature Number: SPRUH73K
> + */
> + if ((irqnr & SPURIOUSIRQ_MASK) == SPURIOUSIRQ_MASK) {
> + pr_debug_ratelimited("%s: spurious irq!\n", __func__);

I'd prefer that this is a pr_once() and the spurious interrupt counter
is incremented. That's far more useful as it gives you real
information about the frequency of the issue.

Thanks,

tglx
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