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ehea: fix losing of NEQ events when one event occurred early

Message ID 1336608618-31497-1-git-send-email-cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo May 10, 2012, 12:10 a.m. UTC
The NEQ interrupt is only triggered when there was no previous pending
interrupt. If we request irq handling after an interrupt has occurred,
we will never get an interrupt until we call H_RESET_EVENTS.

Events seem to be cleared when we first register the NEQ. So, when we
requested irq handling right after registering it, a possible race with
an interrupt was much less likely. Now, there is a chance we may lose
this race and never get any events.

The fix here is to poll and acknowledge any events that might have
happened right after registering the irq handler.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller May 10, 2012, 12:29 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed,  9 May 2012 21:10:18 -0300

> +	/* Handle any events that might be pending. */
> +	tasklet_hi_schedule(&adapter->neq_tasklet);
> +
>  
>  	ret = 0;

These extra empty lines are completely unnecessary, please remove
them.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
index c9069a2..f088e59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -3335,6 +3335,9 @@  static int __devinit ehea_probe_adapter(struct platform_device *dev,
 		goto out_shutdown_ports;
 	}
 
+	/* Handle any events that might be pending. */
+	tasklet_hi_schedule(&adapter->neq_tasklet);
+
 
 	ret = 0;
 	goto out;