[PATCH] PowerPC: MPIC ack interrupts at mpic_teardown_this_cpu()

Valentine Barshak vbarshak at ru.mvista.com
Fri Apr 4 06:09:43 EST 2008


We really need to ack interrupts at mpic_teardown, since
not all platforms reset mpic at kernel start-up. For example,
kexec'ed kernel hangs on P.A. Semi if mpic_eoi() isn't called.

Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak at ru.mvista.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- powerpc/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c	2008-02-26 15:56:57.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.new/arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c	2008-04-03 23:00:45.000000000 +0400
@@ -1410,11 +1410,6 @@ void mpic_cpu_set_priority(int prio)
 	mpic_cpu_write(MPIC_INFO(CPU_CURRENT_TASK_PRI), prio);
 }
 
-/*
- * XXX: someone who knows mpic should check this.
- * do we need to eoi the ipi including for kexec cpu here (see xics comments)?
- * or can we reset the mpic in the new kernel?
- */
 void mpic_teardown_this_cpu(int secondary)
 {
 	struct mpic *mpic = mpic_primary;
@@ -1434,6 +1429,7 @@ void mpic_teardown_this_cpu(int secondar
 
 	/* Set current processor priority to max */
 	mpic_cpu_write(MPIC_INFO(CPU_CURRENT_TASK_PRI), 0xf);
+	mpic_eoi(mpic);
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mpic_lock, flags);
 }



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