MVNETA irq with backport-3.8

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Greg,

On 05/07/2013 06:40 PM, Greg wrote:
> Le 07/05/2013 18:18, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
>> Dear Greg,
>>
>> On Tue, 07 May 2013 16:14:01 +0200, Greg wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to boot off the the backport-3.-8 kernel with armada-xp-db DT
>>> file.
>>>
>>> When eth0 is brought up (I'm booting on NFS) the mvneta driver fails in
>>> mvneta_open, with the following error :
>>>> mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: cannot request irq 25
>>> The oddness is this is not the actual IRQ to be requested, and the DTS
>>> files explicitly specify the IRQ is 8 for this device.
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with the DT system, where should I start looking to
>>> find the source of the problem ?
>> This issue should be fixed by:
>>
>> commit 7f23f62fc31c5c97947414c0937a72e08a947a41
>> Author: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
>> Date:   Wed Mar 20 16:09:35 2013 +0100
>>
>>      arm: mvebu: Use local interrupt only for the timer 0
>>      
>>      The commit 3a6f08a37 "arm: mvebu: Add support for local interrupt",
>>      managed the 28th first interrupts as local interrupt to match the
>>      hardware specification. Among these interrupts there are the Gigabits
>>      Ethernet ones used by the mvneta driver. Unfortunately the state of
>>      the percpu_irq API prevents the driver to use it.
>>      
>>      Indeed the interrupts have to be freed when the .stop() function is
>>      called. As the free_percpu_irq() function don't disable the interrupt
>>      line, we have to do it on each CPU before calling this. The function
>>      disable_percpu_irq() only disable the percpu on the current CPU and
>>      there is no function which allows to disable a percpu irq on a given
>>      CPU. Waiting for the extension of the percpu_irq API, this fix allows
>>      to use again the mvneta driver.
>>      
>>      Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
>>      Tested-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
>>      Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com>
>>      Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
>>
>> which is part of the backport-3.8 branch, so I'm a bit confused. Are
>> you sure you're using the latest backport-3.8 branch? If so, then I'll
>> do a test here to check this.
>>
> By the way, the patch IS applied to the source tree I'm compiling.
> I can see this in arch/arm/mach-mvebu/irq-armada-370-xp.c which is using 
> ARMADA_370_XP_TIMER0_PER_CPU_IRQ instead of ARMADA_370_XP_MAX_PER_CPU_IRQS

I built and tested backport-3.8 and indeed the Ethernet is broken.
It was cause by a recent batch of fixes that I added, now I have to
figure out why they have broken the ethernet whereas they were supposed
to make it work better!

Regards,

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