Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 0a8e8f0..4c69326 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -944,6 +944,18 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Drivers are often written to work w/o knowledge about the
+	 * underlying irq chip implementation, so a request for a
+	 * threaded irq without a primary hard irq context handler
+	 * requires the ONESHOT flag to be set. Some irq chips like
+	 * MSI based interrupts are per se one shot safe. Check the
+	 * chip flags, so we can avoid the unmask dance at the end of
+	 * the threaded handler for those.
+	 */
+	if (desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)
+		new->flags &= ~IRQF_ONESHOT;
+
+	/*
 	 * The following block of code has to be executed atomically
 	 */
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
@@ -1017,7 +1029,8 @@ __setup_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc, struct irqaction *new)
 		 */
 		new->thread_mask = 1 << ffz(thread_mask);
 
-	} else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler) {
+	} else if (new->handler == irq_default_primary_handler &&
+		   !(desc->irq_data.chip->flags & IRQCHIP_ONESHOT_SAFE)) {
 		/*
 		 * The interrupt was requested with handler = NULL, so
 		 * we use the default primary handler for it. But it