On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:27 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 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. 

OK, but it should have still worked OK?

> 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.

It used to mask, see 76d21601, I knew that would bite us somewhere.

Not 100% sure about the change to use shutdown, but it's probably sane
and you've tested it so cool :)

cheers


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