Re: [PATCH] mailbox: qcom-ipcc: flag IRQ NO_THREAD

From: Eric Chanudet
Date: Thu Oct 06 2022 - 15:09:36 EST


On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 11:41:50AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2022-10-03 13:08:49 [-0400], Eric Chanudet wrote:
> > PREEMPT_RT forces qcom-ipcc's handler to be threaded with interrupts
> > enabled, which triggers a warning in __handle_irq_event_percpu():
> > irq 173 handler irq_default_primary_handler+0x0/0x10 enabled interrupts
> > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 77 at kernel/irq/handle.c:161 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x4c4/0x4d0
> >
> > Mark it IRQF_NO_THREAD to avoid running the handler in a threaded
> > context with threadirqs or PREEMPT_RT enabled.
>
> The important bit of information is that this is a IRQ-multiplexer and
> such it must not be threaded. Otherwise its child-interrupts would be
> invoked from the thread handler which is not desired.
> This is noticed by PREEMPT_RT but also on a non-PREEMPT_RT kernel where
> `threadirqs' has been used.

Thank you, I will send a v2 shortly updating the description with the
above.

> Side note: Using request_irq() has the side effect that this interrupt
> pops-up in /proc/interrupts and the "child-interrupt", too. So you
> account two interrupts while "one" on the HW side occurred.
> Maybe irq_set_chained_handler_and_data() would be better use.

I see.

> Either way, this addresses the problem,

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Eric Chanudet