Ok, I've bisected this problem and found that this patch broke my NIC: 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 is first bad commit commit 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 16 01:28:24 2007 -0800 [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default Never mask interrupts immediately upon request. Disabling interrupts in high-performance codepaths is rare, and on the other hand this change could recover lost edges (or even other types of lost interrupts) by conservatively only masking interrupts after they happen. (NOTE: with this change the highlevel irq-disable code still soft-disables this IRQ line - and if such an interrupt happens then the IRQ flow handler keeps the IRQ masked.) Mark i8529A controllers as 'never loses an edge'. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 After reverting it on top of 2.6.21.3 (with d7e25f3394ba05a6d64cb2be42c2765fe72ea6b2 - [PATCH] genirq: remove IRQ_DISABLED (which ment "remove IRQ_DELAYED_DISABLE")), the problem didn't show up :) (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d7e25f3394ba05a6d64cb2be42c2765fe72ea6b2) So I cooked patch like below and everything is working fine (so far) Fix default_disable interrupt function (broken by [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default) - revert removal of codepath which was invoked when removed flag (IRQ_DELAYED_DISABLE) wag NOT set Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/kernel/irq/chip.c b/kernel/irq/chip.c index 76a9106..0bb23cd 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/chip.c +++ b/kernel/irq/chip.c @@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ static void default_enable(unsigned int irq) */ static void default_disable(unsigned int irq) { + struct irq_desc *desc = irq_desc + irq; + desc->chip->mask(irq); } /* (Sorry for whitespace damage, but I have to send it from webmail :|) (I'm a kernel noob, so don't kill me if my patch is wrong ;) ps: Here is the beginning of this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/16/182 Regards, Marcin Slusarz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
