On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 14:14, Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, I wrote: However, I found another problem. pmac_zilog oopses when its TTY is closed (see below). And macsonic does the same when the NIC is closed. The trace says that irq_shutdown() died trying to call the chip irq_mask routine, when desc->irq_data.chip (in a0) was NULL. Any ideas?
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address (null) Oops: 00000000 Modules linked in: PC: [<00000000>] (null)
No, it calls a function pointer that's NULL. void irq_shutdown(struct irq_desc *desc) { irq_state_set_disabled(desc); desc->depth = 1; if (desc->irq_data.chip->irq_shutdown) desc->irq_data.chip->irq_shutdown(&desc->irq_data); if (desc->irq_data.chip->irq_disable) desc->irq_data.chip->irq_disable(&desc->irq_data); else desc->irq_data.chip->irq_mask(&desc->irq_data); irq_state_set_masked(desc); } Oops, seems I misread the code and assumed the second "if" was an "else if", as I wrote down in my notes that it calls only one of the 3 functions :-( But it does need either .irq_disable() or .irq_mask(). The following irq_chip structs have both .irq_disable() and .irq_mask() NULL: - arch/m68k/apollo/dn_ints.c:apollo_irq_chip - arch/m68k/kernel/ints.c:auto_irq_chip - arch/m68k/kernel/ints.c:user_irq_chip Since this is on Mac and mac_irq_chip is OK, I guess this is a non-PSC Mac, i.e. the IRQ number is IRQ_MAC_SCC == IRQ_AUTO_4? Thomas: As we cannot disable or mask autovector interrupts at the autovector level, IMHO it doesn't make much sense do add a dummy .irq_mask() function. Can we add an extra check in irq_shutdown() to not call .irq_mask() if it's NULL? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html