Hello, This is the first take of better-lost-spurious-irq-handling patchset. IRQs can go wrong in two opposite directions. There can be too many or too few. Currently, the former is handled by spurious IRQ detection and polling (the "nobody cared" thing) and the latter by irqpoll kernel parameter, which currently is broken on many configurations due to tickless timer and missing IRQF_IRQPOLL. Certain hardware classes are inherently prone to IRQ related problems. ATA is one very good example. When the traditional IDE interface is used, regardless of PATA or SATA, handling of IRQ is very fragile. There is no reliable way to tell whether the controller is raising an interrupt or not and the driver should expect IRQ according to HSM transitions and hope that the host controller stays in sync and does what it's expected to do. Occasionally but surely something goes wrong and IRQ storm or timeout follows. Furthermore, the IRQ is ultimately under the control of the ATA device not the ATA controller making things a whole lot more fragile and prone to permanent and transient IRQ problems. Even if the controller and hardware themselves are okay, IRQ sharing means that any device can be a victim of rogue interrupts. For example, there was an I2C device for which the driver didn't use IRQ but when the configuration is right (well, rather, wrong), its IRQ line would assert and cause IRQ storm and there wasn't much the driver could do to prevent that. There's also the BIOS and OS expecting different things especially during suspend and resume. On my x61s when resuming from STR something funny happens and the IRQ line for a USB host gets stuck once in a while. Most of these problems can be worked around much more efficiently without adding noticeable runtime overhead or driver complexity by using polling carefully. This patchset improves the existing spurious IRQ handling and implements two mechanisms to work around lost interrupts. Emphasis was put on making it easy to use for drivers. Drivers only need IRQF_SHARED on the interrupt handler and add some function calls here and there. Functions which can be used in hot paths are efficient and can be called without worrying about performance implications by virtually any driver which deals with an actual hardware. Except for init functions, all don't care about calling context and won't fail catastrophically even if used incorrectly. Also, operational parameters are predetermined and/or self regulating. After this patchset, the following three mechanisms are in place to deal with IRQ problems. * IRQ expecting: Tightly coupled with controller operation. Provides strong protection against most lost IRQ problems. Applied to libata. * IRQ watching: Loosely coupled with controller operation. Provides protection against common lost IRQ problems (misrouting). Applied to usb. * Spurious IRQ handling: More responsive and less expensive than the existing implementation. Tries to disengage after some period so that transient problems don't end up having prolonged effects. With the patchset applied, my test machine works fine with IRQ routing messed up. By applying the mechanism to more drivers, things will improve but, even in the current state, many systems with IRQ problems will be able to cope with transient problems much better and install and run the base system well enough to allow bug reporting and debugging of persistent ones. This patchset contains the following 12 patches. 0001-irq-cleanup-irqfixup.patch 0002-irq-make-spurious-poll-timer-per-desc.patch 0003-irq-use-desc-poll_timer-for-irqpoll.patch 0004-irq-kill-IRQF_IRQPOLL.patch 0005-irq-misc-preparations-for-further-changes.patch 0006-irq-implement-irq_schedule_poll.patch 0007-irq-improve-spurious-IRQ-handling.patch 0008-irq-implement-IRQ-watching.patch 0009-irq-implement-IRQ-expecting.patch 0010-irq-add-comment-about-overall-design-of-lost-spuriou.patch 0011-libata-use-IRQ-expecting.patch 0012-usb-use-IRQ-watching.patch 0001 is cleanup. 0002-0004 convert the existing polling mechanisms to use per-desc timer instead of IRQF_IRQPOLL. This is more reliable and cheaper and easier to maintain. 0005-0006 prepare for further changes. 0007-0010 implement better lost/spurious interrupt handling mechanisms. 0011-0012 apply them to libata and usb. This patchset is available in the following git branch. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git lost-spurious-irq and contains the following changes. arch/arm/mach-aaec2000/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-at91/at91rm9200_time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam926x_time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-bcmring/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-clps711x/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ebsa110/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-footbridge/dc21285-timer.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-footbridge/isa-timer.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-h720x/cpu-h7201.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-h720x/cpu-h7202.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-integrator/integrator_ap.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ixp2000/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ixp23xx/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/common.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-mmp/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-netx/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/irq.c | 3 arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/time-ns9360.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-nuc93x/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-omap1/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-omap1/timer32k.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-omap2/timer-gp.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-pnx4008/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-pxa/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-sa1100/time.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-shark/core.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-u300/timer.c | 2 arch/arm/mach-w90x900/time.c | 2 arch/arm/plat-iop/time.c | 2 arch/arm/plat-mxc/time.c | 2 arch/arm/plat-samsung/time.c | 2 arch/arm/plat-versatile/timer-sp.c | 2 arch/blackfin/kernel/time-ts.c | 6 arch/ia64/kernel/time.c | 2 arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c | 2 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c | 5 arch/x86/kernel/time.c | 2 drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 15 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 4 drivers/ata/libata-sff.c | 37 - drivers/clocksource/sh_cmt.c | 3 drivers/clocksource/sh_mtu2.c | 3 drivers/clocksource/sh_tmu.c | 3 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 1 include/linux/interrupt.h | 43 - include/linux/irq.h | 40 + include/linux/libata.h | 2 kernel/irq/chip.c | 20 kernel/irq/handle.c | 7 kernel/irq/internals.h | 10 kernel/irq/manage.c | 18 kernel/irq/proc.c | 5 kernel/irq/spurious.c | 978 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 56 files changed, 1008 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-) Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
