8260 - Spurious interrupt when calling __sti()

[Ricardo Scop]

Jean-Denis,

See comments below.

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Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 11:53:45 AM, you wrote:


JDB> I have a custom board that uses an 8260 (rev. A.1 1K22A).
Same CPU and rev, other custom board.

JDB> We've had for a long time a problem of spurious interrupt.
JDB> On kernel 2.4.10, at boot up, the following message was written to the
JDB> console:

JDB>   Unhandled interrupt 0, disabled
We have this with kernel 2.4.16.

JDB> This message did not appear on kernel 2.4.18 (I don't know why),
Didn't try 2.4.18, yet.

JDB> but in /proc/interrupts, the number at the right of BAD was increasing
JDB> slowly.

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JDB> Putting traces in the interrupt handler, it appeared that the interrupt
JDB> happened in '__sti()' (arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S), just after calling 'mtmsr'
JDB> to turn on the 'EE' bit.

JDB> I added a 'sync', between 'ori r3,r3,MSR_EE' and 'mtmsr r3',
JDB> and it has fixed the problem.
I'll try that, thanks.

JDB> My questions are:
JDB>  - Did anybody encountered the same problem on that core?
yes.

JDB>  - Did anybody seen something about that in the user's manual and/or the
JDB> errata?
no.

JDB>  - Is my fix correct, and should it be brought to other calls to 'mtmsr' ?
I don't have the knowledge to answer that :-(


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