Hi,
I run into the following problem when loading a module that uses
interrupts (net driver):
1) Module loads and request_irq()
2) We take an interrupt before doing anything else in the module.
Our low level IRQ handler (for the RC32300) disables interrupts
by clearing the IE bit in CP0_STATUS (code based on the various
implementations of other boards)
3) in handle_IRQ_event() the module handler is called through:
action->handler(irq, action->dev_id, regs);
4) The processor does an exception (tlb miss/refill) to get the
page pointed by action->handler.
At the end of the tlb exception handler, we have an "eret"
=> interrupts are enabled again (IE bit goes to 1)
5) We take another interrupt (because we didn't get into
the handler to clear the cause yet), in do_IRQ() we see that
one is already pending => eret
6) goto 5
I had to disable interrupts through CP0_STATUS IM bits in the low
level interrupt handler to handle this. I looked at the code of other
boards and none seemed to do this.
So did I miss something? Couldn't this happen to anyone who loads a
module and get the modules's intialization code and the interrupt
handler go into different pages?
Regards,
Rani
