MSI problem since 2.6.21 for devices not providing a mask in theirMSI capability

[Loic Prylli]

Hi,

We observe a problem with MSI since kernel 2.6.21 where interrupts would
randomly stop working. We have tracked it down to the new
msi_set_mask_bit definition in 2.6.21. In the MSI case with a device not
providing a "native" MSI mask, it was a no-op before, and now it
disables MSI in the MSI-ctl register which according to the PCI spec is
interpreted as reverting the device to legacy interrupts. If such a
device try to generate a new interrupt during the "masked" window, the
device will try a legacy interrupt which is generally
ignored/never-acked and cause interrupts to no longer work for the
device/driver combination (even after the enable bit is restored).


Is there anything apart from irq migration that strongly requires
masking? Is is possible to do the irq migration without masking?



Loic

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