linux-sg2042/arch/powerpc
Arnd Bergmann d015fe9951 powerpc/cell/axon-msi: Retry on missing interrupt
The MSI capture logic for the axon bridge can sometimes
lose interrupts in case of high DMA and interrupt load,
when it signals an MSI interrupt to the MPIC interrupt
controller while we are already handling another MSI.

Each MSI vector gets written into a FIFO buffer in main
memory using DMA, and that DMA access is normally flushed
by the actual interrupt packet on the IOIF.  An MMIO
register in the MSIC holds the position of the last
entry in the FIFO buffer that was written.  However,
reading that position does not flush the DMA, so that
we can observe stale data in the buffer.

In a stress test, we have observed the DMA to arrive
up to 14 microseconds after reading the register.

This patch works around this problem by retrying the
access to the FIFO buffer.

We can reliably detect the conditioning by writing
an invalid MSI vector into the FIFO buffer after
reading from it, assuming that all MSIs we get
are valid.  After detecting an invalid MSI vector,
we udelay(1) in the interrupt cascade for up to
100 times before giving up.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-01 09:40:18 +11:00
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boot powerpc/mpc832x_rdb: fix swapped ethernet ids 2008-11-19 15:12:19 -06:00
configs Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-mpc52xx into merge 2008-11-24 11:53:44 +11:00
include/asm powerpc: Update QE/CPM2 usb_ctlr structures for USB support 2008-11-08 12:39:02 -06:00
kernel powerpc: Fix IRQ assignment for some PCIe devices 2008-12-01 09:40:18 +11:00
kvm KVM: switch to get_user_pages_fast 2008-10-15 14:25:06 +02:00
lib powerpc: Fix DMA offset for non-coherent DMA 2008-10-14 10:35:26 +11:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Use kernel generic math-emu code 2008-10-01 08:40:07 -05:00
mm powerpc: Fix boot freeze on machine with empty memory node 2008-12-01 09:40:18 +11:00
oprofile powerpc/cell/OProfile: Fix on-stack array size in activate spu profiling function 2008-10-31 16:13:51 +11:00
platforms powerpc/cell/axon-msi: Retry on missing interrupt 2008-12-01 09:40:18 +11:00
sysdev powerpc/virtex: fix various format/casting printk mismatches 2008-11-14 09:59:48 -07:00
xmon powerpc: Fix compile errors with CONFIG_BUG=n 2008-10-31 21:34:09 +11:00
Kconfig Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgent 2008-10-27 10:50:54 +01:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Split-out common MSI bitmap logic into msi_bitmap.c 2008-08-20 16:34:57 +10:00
Makefile ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER 2008-10-20 18:27:03 +02:00