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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 23:09 +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:
> 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>
> ---

Would be interesting to find out why it hangs tho... it shouldn't .

Ben.

>  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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