[PATCH] IPIC: Don't call set_irq_handler with desc->lock held.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Oct 24 02:35:22 EST 2006


This patch causes ipic_set_irq_type to set the handler directly rather
than call set_irq_handler, which causes spinlock recursion because
the lock is already held when ipic_set_irq_type is called.

I'm also not convinced that ipic_set_irq_type should be changing the
handler at all.  There seem to be several controllers that don't and
several that do.  Those that do would break what appears to be a common
usage of calling set_irq_chip_and_handler followed by set_irq_type, if a
non-standard handler were to be used.  OTOH, irq_create_of_mapping()
doesn't set the handler, but only calls set_irq_type().

This patch gets things working in the spinlock-debugging-enabled case,
but I'm curious as to where the handler setting is ideally supposed to be
done.  I don't see any documentation on set_irq_type() that clarifies
what the semantics are supposed to be.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
index bc4d4a7..746f78c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c
@@ -473,9 +473,9 @@ static int ipic_set_irq_type(unsigned in
 	desc->status |= flow_type & IRQ_TYPE_SENSE_MASK;
 	if (flow_type & IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)  {
 		desc->status |= IRQ_LEVEL;
-		set_irq_handler(virq, handle_level_irq);
+		desc->handle_irq = handle_level_irq;
 	} else {
-		set_irq_handler(virq, handle_edge_irq);
+		desc->handle_irq = handle_edge_irq;
 	}
 
 	/* only EXT IRQ senses are programmable on ipic
-- 
1.4.2.3




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