I saw this in a kdump kernel: IOMMU table initialized, virtual merging enabled Interrupt 155954 (real) is invalid, disabling it. Interrupt 155953 (real) is invalid, disabling it.
ie we took some spurious interrupts. default_machine_crash_shutdown tries to disable all interrupt sources but uses chip->disable which maps to the default action of: static void default_disable(unsigned int irq) { } If we use chip->shutdown, then we actually mask the IRQ: static void default_shutdown(unsigned int irq) { struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq); desc->chip->mask(irq); desc->status |= IRQ_MASKED; } Not sure why we don't implement a ->disable action for xics.c, or why default_disable doesn't mask the interrupt. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> --- Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c 2010-05-10 23:43:10.445953883 +1000 +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c 2010-05-10 23:43:21.223454012 +1000 @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(stru desc->chip->eoi(i); if (!(desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED)) - desc->chip->disable(i); + desc->chip->shutdown(i); } /* _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev