On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 02:47:08PM +0300, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 07:27:45PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: ... > Thanks for the fix! > > > [...] I'm far from sure if it's the > > best fix though as I don't fully understand what causes the faults during > > the THRE tests because the port->irq is disabled by the THRE test block. > > If the IRQ hasn't been set up yet, the UART will have zeroes in its MSI > address/data registers. Disabling the IRQ at the interrupt controller > won't stop the UART from performing a DMA write to the address programmed > in its MSI address register (zero) when it wants to signal an interrupt. > > (These UARTs (in Ice Lake-D) implement PCI 2.1 style MSI without masking > capability, so there is no way to mask the interrupt at the source PCI > function level, except disabling the MSI capability entirely, but that > would cause it to fall back to INTx# assertion, and the PCI specification > prohibits disabling the MSI capability as a way to mask a function's > interrupt service request.) This sounds to me like a good part to be injected into commit message of the proposed fix. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
