[PATCH] powerpc/xics: Properly set Edge/Level type and enable resend

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Aug 4 19:41:35 AEST 2016


On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 14:40 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Finally now that edge interrupts are properly identified, we can enable
> > CONFIG_HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND which will make the core re-send them if
> > they occur while masked, which some drivers rely upon.
> >
> > This fixes issues with lost interrupts on some Mellanox adapters.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> Broken since forever?
> 
> Cc stable?

Broken since forever but I want a bit more testing before that goes to
stable. Some drivers like Mellanox had a workaround but they want to
remove it.

Cheers,
Ben.



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