Re: [PATCH] PCI/LINK: bw_notification: Do not leave interrupt handler NULL

From: Keith Busch
Date: Tue Mar 19 2019 - 15:59:52 EST


On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 08:12:04PM -0500, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote:
> I was able to test this on edge-triggered interrupts. None of my
> machines have PCIe ports that use level-triggered interrupts. This
> might not be too straightforward to test without a hardware yanker,
> but if there's a way to force a specific interrupt to be level
> triggered, I could do the testing on my end.

Spec says INTx emulation is required, so I think it ought to be possible
to force them to level-triggered if you disable MSI. The kernel parameter
'pci=nomsi' can force everything to INTx.