[PATCH] kexec: Avoid migration of already disabled irqs (ia64)

[jlan at sgi.com (Jay Lan)]

Magnus Damm wrote:
> kexec: Avoid migration of already disabled irqs (ia64)
> 
> This patch fixes up ia64 kexec support for HP rx2620 hardware. It does this 
> by skipping migration of already disabled irqs. This is most likely a problem
> on other ia64 platforms as well, but I've only tested this on one machine
> so far.

I have not seen this problem on SN systems.

Cheers,
 - jay

> 
> The full story is that handle_bad_irq() gets invoked before starting the new 
> kernel without this patch. This seems to happen when fixup_irqs() calls 
> generic_handle_irq() on already migrated (and disabled) irqs. So by avoiding
> migration of disabled irqs we stay away of handle_bad_irq().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus at valinux.co.jp>
> ---
> 
>  Tested using kexec-tools-testing 7792798a79b78a5d566f70c9f00237d050b01350
>  on HP rx2620 hardware.
> 
>  Applies on top of 2.6.20-rc6.
> 
>  arch/ia64/kernel/irq.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> --- 0001/arch/ia64/kernel/irq.c
> +++ 0004/arch/ia64/kernel/irq.c	2007-01-30 12:35:10.000000000 +0900
> @@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ static void migrate_irqs(void)
>  	for (irq=0; irq < NR_IRQS; irq++) {
>  		desc = irq_desc + irq;
>  
> +		if (desc->status == IRQ_DISABLED)
> +			continue;
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * No handling for now.
>  		 * TBD: Implement a disable function so we can now
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