Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2012-01-19

Re: [PATCH] amba-pl011: clear previous interrupts before request_irq

From: Russell King <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-18 10:16:12
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:34:11PM +0530, Shreshtha Kumar SAHU wrote:
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From 0742fc49405b2a6f562981f61d93198e1595f30d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shreshtha Kumar Sahu <redacted>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:23:19 +0530
Subject: [PATCH v2] amba-pl011: clear previous interrupts before request_irq

All previous interrupts should be cleared before installing
interrupt handler i.e. before request_irq. pl011_shutdown
clears the interrupt register but there may be case where
bootloader transfers control to kernel and there are some
pending interrupts. In this case interrupt handler will get
called even before interrupt mask is enabled.

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
No sign-off, and I don't understand the problem being aluded to in the
description above - particularly the last sentence.

In theory, we should be prepared for the interrupt handler to be called
immediately after request_irq() returns, and not have the driver misbehave
because of that.  Maybe a better solution would be to move request_irq()
a bit later?

But first, having a clearer description of the problem you're seeing
would be beneficial.
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---
 drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
index 6958594..6dafaa2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,15 @@ static int pl011_startup(struct uart_port *port)
 	uap->port.uartclk = clk_get_rate(uap->clk);
 
 	/*
+	 * Clear previous interrupts before installing interrupt handler
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
+	uap->im = 0;
+	writew(uap->im, uap->port.membase + UART011_IMSC);
+	writew(0xffff, uap->port.membase + UART011_ICR);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&uap->port.lock);
+
+	/*
 	 * Allocate the IRQ
 	 */
 	retval = request_irq(uap->port.irq, pl011_int, 0, "uart-pl011", uap);
-- 
1.7.4.3
-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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