On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, David Brownell wrote:

quoted text
> ========= CUT HERE
> Modify EHCI irq handling on the theory that at least some of the
> "lost" IRQs are caused by goofage between multiple lowlevel IRQ
> acking mechanisms:  try rescanning before we exit the handler, in
> case the EHCI-internal ack (by clearing the irq status) doesn't
> always suffice for IRQs triggered nearly back-to-back.
> 
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c |    8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> --- g26.orig/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c	2008-02-20 13:26:00.000000000 -0800
> +++ g26/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c	2008-02-20 13:54:37.000000000 -0800
> @@ -638,6 +638,8 @@ static irqreturn_t ehci_irq (struct usb_
>  		return IRQ_NONE;
>  	}
>  
> +retrigger:
> +
>  	/* clear (just) interrupts */
>  	ehci_writel(ehci, status, &ehci->regs->status);
>  	cmd = ehci_readl(ehci, &ehci->regs->command);
> @@ -725,6 +727,12 @@ dead:
>  
>  	if (bh)
>  		ehci_work (ehci);
> +
> +	status = ehci_readl(ehci, &ehci->regs->status);
> +	status &= INTR_MASK;
> +	if (status)
> +		goto retrigger;
> +
>  	spin_unlock (&ehci->lock);
>  	if (pcd_status & STS_PCD)
>  		usb_hcd_poll_rh_status(hcd);

There's one little problem here.  As a result of this change, the line 
where pcd_status gets set (not shown in this patch) needs to be changed 
to:

		pcd_status |= (status & STS_PCD);

Then the test shown above can be simplified to:

	if (pcd_status)

Alan Stern

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