
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). I have no idea how that even can happen. To avoid tempting this elephant into a rage, just disable gmbus interrupt support on gen 4. v2: Improve the commit message with exact details of what's going on. Also add a comment in the code to warn against this particular elephant in the room. v3: Move the comment explaing how gen4 blows up next to the definition of HAS_GMBUS_IRQ to keep the code-flow straight. Suggested by Chris Wilson. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (v1) Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/8/325 Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
************************************************************ * For the very latest on DRI development, please see: * * http://dri.freedesktop.org/ * ************************************************************ The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major ways: 1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via the use of an optimized two-tiered lock. 2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to restricted regions of memory. 3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context switch. 4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module. Documentation on the DRI is available from: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387 http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/ For specific information about kernel-level support, see: The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html