> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Robert Hancock [mailto:[email protected]]
> Inviato: venerdì 18 agosto 2006 16.31
> A: Giampaolo Tomassoni
> Cc: Linux Kernel ML
> Oggetto: Re: R: How to avoid serial port buffer overruns?
>
> IRQ_HANDLED vs. IRQ_NONE has no effect on what interrupt handlers are
> called, etc. It is only used to detect if an interrupt is firing without
> being handled by any driver, in this case the kernel can detect this and
> disable the interrupt.
>
> I'm not sure exactly why the driver is returning IRQ_HANDLED all the
> time, but edge-triggered interrupts are always tricky and there may be a
> case where it can't reliably detect this. Returning IRQ_HANDLED is the
> safe thing to do if you cannot be sure if your device raised an
> interrupt or not.
Oh, I see. This in handle_IRQ_event in /kernel/irq/handle.c confirms what you said:
do {
ret = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id, regs);
if (ret == IRQ_HANDLED)
status |= action->flags;
retval |= ret;
action = action->next;
} while (action);
There is no escape from the loop when the handler returns IRQ_HANDLED.
Thanks,
giampaolo
>
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