linux/arch/ppc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt e4ee69c8c1 [PATCH] ppc32: Bump PMU interrupt priority
The Power Management Unit on PowerMacs is very sensitive to timeouts during
async message exchanges.  It uses rather crude protocol based on a shift
register with an interrupt and is almost continuously exchanging messages with
the host CPU on laptops.

This patch adds a routine to the open_pic driver to be able to select a PMU
driver so that it bumps it's interrupt priority to above the normal level.

This will allow PMU interrupts to occur while another interrupt is pending,
and thus reduce the risk of machine beeing abruptly shutdown by the PMU due to
a timeout in PMU communication caused by excessive interrupt latency.  The
problem is very rare, and usually just doesn't happen, but it is still useful
to make things even more robust.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:11:42 -07:00
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4xx_io Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
8xx_io Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
8260_io Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
amiga Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
boot [PATCH] update comment about gzip scratch size 2005-06-25 16:25:07 -07:00
configs [PATCH] ppc32: Added preliminary support for the MPC8548 CDS board 2005-06-21 18:46:23 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design 2005-06-27 14:33:29 -07:00
lib [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup 2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mm [PATCH] 8xx: avoid "dcbst" misbehaviour with unpopulated TLB 2005-06-27 15:11:42 -07:00
oprofile Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
platforms [PATCH] ppc32: Fix compiling of sandpoint platform 2005-06-27 15:11:41 -07:00
syslib [PATCH] ppc32: Bump PMU interrupt priority 2005-06-27 15:11:42 -07:00
xmon [PATCH] ppc32: Kill embedded system.map, use kallsyms 2005-06-21 18:46:26 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] kexec: kexec ppc support 2005-06-25 16:24:51 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] ppc32: Remove FSL OCP support 2005-06-25 16:24:27 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] ppc32: Add support for Freescale e200 (Book-E) core 2005-06-25 16:24:26 -07:00