On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:25:03PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote: > commit b74713d04effbacd3d126ce94cec18742187b6ce > "ath9k: Handle fatal interrupts properly" introduced a race condition, where > IRQs are being left enabled, however the irq handler returns IRQ_HANDLED > while the reset is still queued without addressing the IRQ cause. > This leads to an IRQ storm that prevents the system from even getting to > the reset code. > > Fix this by disabling IRQs in the handler without touching intr_ref_cnt. > It is safer not to re-enable interrupts on FATAL errors rather than enabling it and then checking it on irq for bailing out. It would be better if you kill the interrupts on processing fatal interrupts. -Rajkumar -- 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
