Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] ahci: give another shot at clearing allbits in irq_stat

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 09:46:46 EST


Tejun Heo wrote:
Commit ea0c62f7cf70f13a67830471b613337bd0c9a62e tried to clear all
bits in irq_stat but it didn't actually achieve that as irq_stat was
anded with port_map right after read. This patch makes ahci driver
always use the unmasked value to clear irq_status.

While at it, add explanation on the peculiarities of ahci IRQ
clearing.

This was spotted by Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The original report requires further investigation regarding why the
bogus change fixed the problem but this change is the correct thing to
do regardless.

Thanks.

Belated post-holiday ACK (since it's already in).

Thanks for taking care of this, and good catch too.

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