Some devices may generate spurious interrupts, we have to handle them otherwise interrupt line will be disabled with below message and driver will not work: [ 2052.114334] irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [ 2052.114339] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 #1 [ 2052.114341] Call Trace: [ 2052.114342] <IRQ> [<ffffffff810a6e2b>] __report_bad_irq.clone.1+0x3d/0x8b [ 2052.114349] [<ffffffff810a6f93>] note_interrupt+0x11a/0x17f [ 2052.114352] [<ffffffff810a7a73>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa8/0xce [ 2052.114355] [<ffffffff8100c2ea>] handle_irq+0x88/0x90 [ 2052.114357] [<ffffffff8146f034>] do_IRQ+0x5c/0xb4 [ 2052.114360] [<ffffffff81469593>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11 [ 2052.114361] <EOI> [<ffffffff8102b7f9>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0xd [ 2052.114366] [<ffffffff81010f03>] ? need_resched+0x23/0x2d [ 2052.114367] [<ffffffff8101102a>] default_idle+0x34/0x4f [ 2052.114370] [<ffffffff81008325>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xcc [ 2052.114373] [<ffffffff81461f2a>] start_secondary+0x24d/0x28e [ 2052.114374] handlers: [ 2052.114375] [<ffffffff81332944>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x7c) [ 2052.114378] [<ffffffffa00697da>] (rt2800pci_interrupt+0x0/0x18d [rt2800pci]) [ 2052.114384] Disabling IRQ #17 Resolve: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658451 Reported-and-tested-by: Amir Hedayaty <hedayaty@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I changed rt2800pci only because get bug report for that device, not sure if similar changes are not needed for other rt2x00 PCI devices. drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c index da48c8a..4dc2d0f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c @@ -880,8 +880,13 @@ static irqreturn_t rt2800pci_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance) rt2x00pci_register_read(rt2x00dev, INT_SOURCE_CSR, ®); rt2x00pci_register_write(rt2x00dev, INT_SOURCE_CSR, reg); + /* + * Some devices can generate interrupts with empty CSR register, we + * "handle" such irq's to prevent interrupt controller treat them as + * spurious interrupts and disable irq line. + */ if (!reg) - return IRQ_NONE; + return IRQ_HANDLED; if (!test_bit(DEVICE_STATE_ENABLED_RADIO, &rt2x00dev->flags)) return IRQ_HANDLED; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
