[PATCH] Dove: Fix irq_to_pmu()

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:31:25PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> And there's yet another bug... this time in the kirkwood audio driver:
> 
> static irqreturn_t kirkwood_dma_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
> {
>         struct kirkwood_dma_priv *prdata = dev_id;
>         struct kirkwood_dma_data *priv = prdata->data;
>         unsigned long mask, status, cause;   
>         
>         mask = readl(priv->io + KIRKWOOD_INT_MASK);
>         status = readl(priv->io + KIRKWOOD_INT_CAUSE) & mask;
> 
>         cause = readl(priv->io + KIRKWOOD_ERR_CAUSE);
>         if (unlikely(cause)) {
>                 printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: got err interrupt 0x%lx\n",
>                                 __func__, cause);
>                 writel(cause, priv->io + KIRKWOOD_ERR_CAUSE);
>                 return IRQ_HANDLED;
>         }
> 
> What happens here if an underrun (0x20) interrupt happens?  Well, the
> kernel log looks something like this:

Actually, it's _far_ worse.  This interrupt handler is hooked into the
_normal_ I2S IRQ (21) - errors are reported via a separate IRQ (22).

So what happens is a normal IRQ (in INT_CAUSE) gets signalled.  It's at
that point we notice that an error occured... and clear the error,
leaving the normal interrupt set in INT_CAUSE, and return lying that
we'd serviced the interrupt.

The result is... IRQ21 is still pending, and ends up being the higher
priority interrupt, so we service IRQ21 again... and find that the
error cause bit has been set again... and return yet again IRQ_HANDLED
without actually servicing the interrupt...

I think we're far better off ripping out this "error handling".  If we
want to have this, then we should hook the _proper_ error interrupt, and
have some kind of back-off on it (which I think is the right solution).
Or if we merely want to report that an error occurred, then just get rid
of that "return IRQ_HANDLED" there.