Re: [PATCH v2] cxl/events: Return IRQ_NONE when no event is pending
From: Dave Jiang
Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 11:56:38 EST
On 9/12/26 2:38 AM, Shaikh Kamaluddin wrote:
> CXL event interrupts may share an MSI/MSI-X vector with other event
> logs or device features. Consequently, cxl_event_thread() is registered
> with IRQF_SHARED and must determine whether the event-log facility
> claimed the interrupt.
>
> The handler masks the Device Event Status register to the event logs
> supported by the driver. However, when no supported status bit is set,
> it exits the processing loop and still returns IRQ_HANDLED. This
> incorrectly reports that the interrupt was claimed and prevents the
> generic spurious-interrupt detector from accounting it as unhandled.
>
> Track whether the CXL event handler claimed the interrupt and return
> IRQ_NONE when no supported event is detected. If no handler sharing the
> vector claims a sustained interrupt storm, the generic spurious-
> interrupt detector can eventually identify and disable the affected
> IRQ.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaikh Kamaluddin <shaikhkamal2012@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied to cxl/next:
a8c458611a7d
> ---
> Changes in V2:
> - Emphasize that returning IRQ_NONE enables generic spurious-interrupt
> detection and drop the Fixes tag. (Jonathan Cameron)
> - Check whether the event interrupt is already disabled by Anisa Su's
> patch; no code changes were needed. (Ben Cheatham)
> - Rebase onto v7.3-rc2; no code changes.
>
> drivers/cxl/pci.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> index c7c91e8dc51d..8b560cae91f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static irqreturn_t cxl_event_thread(int irq, void *id)
> struct cxl_dev_id *dev_id = id;
> struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds = dev_id->cxlds;
> struct cxl_memdev_state *mds = to_cxl_memdev_state(cxlds);
> + bool handled = false;
> u32 status;
>
> do {
> @@ -527,11 +528,13 @@ static irqreturn_t cxl_event_thread(int irq, void *id)
> status &= CXLDEV_EVENT_STATUS_ALL;
> if (!status)
> break;
> +
> + handled = true;
> cxl_mem_get_event_records(mds, status);
> cond_resched();
> } while (status);
>
> - return IRQ_HANDLED;
> + return handled ? IRQ_HANDLED : IRQ_NONE;
> }
>
> static int cxl_event_req_irq(struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds, u8 setting)
>
> base-commit: df2908090cda368b01ff43709f51890076c56157