[PATCH 2/2] cxl: Poll for outstanding IRQs when detaching a context

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Fri Apr 22 15:14:42 AEST 2016


On 22/04/16 14:57, Michael Neuling wrote:
> When detaching contexts, we may still have interrupts in the system
> which are yet to be delivered to any CPU and be acked in the PSL.
> This can result in a subsequent unrelated process getting an spurious
> IRQ or an interrupt for a non-existent context.
>
> This polls the PSL to ensure that the PSL is clear of IRQs for the
> detached context, before removing the context from the idr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>

Tested on top of 4.6-rc3 using the genwqe-echo test utility[0].

Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

[0] 
https://github.com/ibm-genwqe/genwqe-user/blob/master/tools/genwqe_echo.c

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Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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