[PATCH] genirq: Fix race condition in ONESHOT irq handler

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:

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So it looks like driver developers decided that the oneshot mode might
be interesting with a primary handler as well. I can see the reason
why the tsc2007 driver uses it, but that does not make it a bug in the
core code in the first place.

Then maybe the core code should not check the return value
of the primary handler for IRQ_WAKE_THREAD but call the secondary
handler unconditionally for ONESHOT interrupts.
Or it should be at least documented somewhere that primary handlers
have to return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD in any case for oneshot interrupts.

Well, you know how good we are with documentation :)
 

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The problem arises also with interrupt controllers that latch a level
triggered IRQ until it is acknowledged (like the i.MX28 does).
In this case the IRQ status bit will remain asserted after the
soft-irq finishes and retrigger the interrupt while the interrupt line
is already deasserted.

This does not make sense. We acknowledge interrupts via mask_ack_irq()
right on entry of handle_level_irq(). So either the interrupt

That's right. But at that point the IRQ line is still asserted and
since it is a level IRQ this will not actually clear the interrupt
status bit. Normally the IRQ status bit would self-clear when the IRQ
line is being deasserted (in this case by removing the finger from the
touch panel). But the i.MX28 leaves the IRQ status bit set and it
takes another write to the IRQ status register to remove the bogus IRQ
status.

So the question is whether the imx irq chip implementation should
write to the status register on unmask for level type irqs to avoid
spurious interrupts being generated in the first place. This is not
only an optimization for threaded interrupts, afaict this spurious
effect should happen with non threaded interrupts as well.

Did my patch work for you ?

Thanks,

	tglx