Re: [PATCH] AHCI: Clear GHC.IS to prevent unexpectly asserting INTx

[tj@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:13:46PM +0000, Pang Raymond wrote:
> 
> Due to PCI subsystem behaviour, unloading AHCI driver will disable 
> MSI and enable INTx. When HBA supports MSIx or Multiple MSI, Driver's
> irq handler doesn't clear GHC.IS register. It works well when reading or
> writing data and GHC.IS is always non-zero. But when unloading driver
> (or any other operation which causes disable MSIx and enable INTx), PCI
>  subsystem uses config write(Rx04.bit10) to enable INTx. Because
> GHC.IS is non-zero, HBA will falsely assume some port needs interrupt 
> service. Then it asserts INTx. To make things worse, when AHCI controller
> shares the same interrupt pin with other PCI device, that PCI device's ISR
> will be called and nobody de-asserts previous INTx.
> This patch clears GHC.IS in ahci_port_stop() even when using MSIx or 
> MMSI to prevent this case. It ensures GHC.IS is zero before PCI subsystem 
> enables INTx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raymond Pang <raymond_rule@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to libata/for-4.8 with minor updates to the comment.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun