gm45 intel gfx can generate non-MSI irq# in MSI mode (was Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: stop using GMBUS IRQs on Gen4 chips (was Re: [3.9-rc1] irq 16: nobody cared (was [3.9-rc1] very poor interrupt responses

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> For reference below the updated commit message.
> 
> Cheers, Daniel
> 
> Author: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
> Date:   Tue Mar 19 09:56:57 2013 +0100

> 
>     drm/i915: stop using GMBUS IRQs on Gen4 chips
> 
>     Commit 28c70f162 ("drm/i915: use the gmbus irq for waits") switched to
>     using GMBUS irqs instead of GPIO bit-banging for chipset generations 4
>     and above.
> 
>     It turns out though that on many systems this leads to spurious interrupts
>     being generated, long after the register write to disable the IRQs has been
>     issued.
> 
>     Typically this results in the spurious interrupt source getting
>     disabled:
> 
>     [    9.636345] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>     [    9.637915] Pid: 4157, comm: ifup Tainted: GF
> 3.9.0-rc2-00341-g0863702 #422
>     [    9.639484] Call Trace:
>     [    9.640731]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8109b40d>] __report_bad_irq+0x1d/0xc7
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff8109b7db>] note_interrupt+0x15b/0x1e8
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff810999f7>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x1bf/0x214
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff81099a88>] handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x5c
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff8109c139>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x7a/0xb0
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff8100400e>] handle_irq+0x1a/0x24
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff81003d17>] do_IRQ+0x48/0xaf
>     [    9.640731]  [<ffffffff8142f1ea>] common_interrupt+0x6a/0x6a
>     [    9.640731]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8142f952>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>     [    9.640731] handlers:
>     [    9.640731] [<ffffffffa000d771>] usb_hcd_irq [usbcore]
>     [    9.640731] [<ffffffffa0306189>] yenta_interrupt [yenta_socket]
>     [    9.640731] Disabling IRQ #16
> 
>     The really curious thing is now that irq 16 is _not_ the interrupt for
>     the i915 driver when using MSI, but it _is_ the interrupt when not
>     using MSI. So by all indications it seems like gmbus is able to
>     generate a legacy (shared) interrupt in MSI mode on some
>     configurations. I've tried to reproduce this and the differentiating
>     thing seems to be that on unaffected systems no other device uses irq
>     16 (which seems to be the non-MSI intel gfx interrupt on all gm45).

That might be misleading.  It's possible that the erroneous IRQs _are_
being issued but you're simply not aware of them.  If the kernel thinks
that no device is using IRQ 16 then it will leave that IRQ disabled.

Alan Stern