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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/irq/internals.h, branch linux-6.6.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Make handle_enforce_irqctx() unconditionally available</title>
<updated>2025-02-08T08:51:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-10T10:20:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8d187a77f04c14fb459a5301d69f733a5a1396bc ]

Commit 1b57d91b969c ("irqchip/gic-v2, v3: Prevent SW resends entirely")
sett the flag which enforces interrupt handling in interrupt context and
prevents software base resends for ARM GIC v2/v3.

But it missed that the helper function which checks the flag was hidden
behind CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ, which is not set by ARM[64].

Make the helper unconditionally available so that the enforcement actually
works.

Fixes: 1b57d91b969c ("irqchip/gic-v2, v3: Prevent SW resends entirely")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241210101811.497716609@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8d187a77f04c14fb459a5301d69f733a5a1396bc ]

Commit 1b57d91b969c ("irqchip/gic-v2, v3: Prevent SW resends entirely")
sett the flag which enforces interrupt handling in interrupt context and
prevents software base resends for ARM GIC v2/v3.

But it missed that the helper function which checks the flag was hidden
behind CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ, which is not set by ARM[64].

Make the helper unconditionally available so that the enforcement actually
works.

Fixes: 1b57d91b969c ("irqchip/gic-v2, v3: Prevent SW resends entirely")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241210101811.497716609@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Remove unused extern declaration</title>
<updated>2023-07-31T15:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-20T14:36:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
commit 3795de236d67 ("genirq: Distangle kernel/irq/handle.c")
left behind this.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720143625.29176-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com

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commit 3795de236d67 ("genirq: Distangle kernel/irq/handle.c")
left behind this.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720143625.29176-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Prevent nested thread vs synchronize_hardirq() deadlock</title>
<updated>2023-07-31T15:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Whitchurch</name>
<email>vincent.whitchurch@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-06T14:22:25+00:00</published>
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There is a possibility of deadlock if synchronize_hardirq() is called
when the nested threaded interrupt is active.  The following scenario
was observed on a uniprocessor PREEMPT_NONE system:

 Thread 1                      Thread 2

 handle_nested_thread()
  Set INPROGRESS
  Call -&gt;thread_fn()
   thread_fn goes to sleep

                              free_irq()
                               __synchronize_hardirq()
                                Busy-loop forever waiting for INPROGRESS
                                to be cleared

The INPROGRESS flag is only supposed to be used for hard interrupt
handlers.  Remove the incorrect usage in the nested threaded interrupt
case and instead re-use the threads_active / wait_for_threads mechanism
to wait for nested threaded interrupts to complete.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch &lt;vincent.whitchurch@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613-genirq-nested-v3-1-ae58221143eb@axis.com

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There is a possibility of deadlock if synchronize_hardirq() is called
when the nested threaded interrupt is active.  The following scenario
was observed on a uniprocessor PREEMPT_NONE system:

 Thread 1                      Thread 2

 handle_nested_thread()
  Set INPROGRESS
  Call -&gt;thread_fn()
   thread_fn goes to sleep

                              free_irq()
                               __synchronize_hardirq()
                                Busy-loop forever waiting for INPROGRESS
                                to be cleared

The INPROGRESS flag is only supposed to be used for hard interrupt
handlers.  Remove the incorrect usage in the nested threaded interrupt
case and instead re-use the threads_active / wait_for_threads mechanism
to wait for nested threaded interrupts to complete.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch &lt;vincent.whitchurch@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230613-genirq-nested-v3-1-ae58221143eb@axis.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irqchip-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/core</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T09:05:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T09:05:49+00:00</published>
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Pull irqchip updates from Marc Zyngier:

  - A number of Loogson/Loogarch fixes

  - Allow the core code to retrigger an interrupt that has
    fired while the same interrupt is being handled on another
    CPU, papering over a GICv3 architecture issue

  - Work around an integration problem on ASR8601, where the CPU
    numbering isn't representable in the GIC implementation...

  - Add some missing interrupt to the STM32 irqchip

  - A bunch of warning squashing triggered by W=1 builds

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623224345.3577134-1-maz@kernel.org
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Pull irqchip updates from Marc Zyngier:

  - A number of Loogson/Loogarch fixes

  - Allow the core code to retrigger an interrupt that has
    fired while the same interrupt is being handled on another
    CPU, papering over a GICv3 architecture issue

  - Work around an integration problem on ASR8601, where the CPU
    numbering isn't representable in the GIC implementation...

  - Add some missing interrupt to the STM32 irqchip

  - A bunch of warning squashing triggered by W=1 builds

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623224345.3577134-1-maz@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Expand doc for PENDING and REPLAY flags</title>
<updated>2023-06-16T11:22:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Gowans</name>
<email>jgowans@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-08T12:00:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7cc148a32f1e7496e22c0005dd113a31d4a3b3d4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Adding a bit more info about what the flags are used for may help future
code readers.

Signed-off-by: James Gowans &lt;jgowans@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608120021.3273400-2-jgowans@amazon.com
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Adding a bit more info about what the flags are used for may help future
code readers.

Signed-off-by: James Gowans &lt;jgowans@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Liao Chang &lt;liaochang1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230608120021.3273400-2-jgowans@amazon.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Use a maple tree for interrupt descriptor management</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T09:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shanker Donthineni</name>
<email>sdonthineni@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T13:49:02+00:00</published>
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The current implementation uses a static bitmap for interrupt descriptor
allocation and a radix tree to pointer store the pointer for lookup.

However, the size of the bitmap is constrained by the build time macro
MAX_SPARSE_IRQS, which may not be sufficient to support high-end servers,
particularly those with GICv4.1 hardware, which require a large interrupt
space to cover LPIs and vSGIs.

Replace the bitmap and the radix tree with a maple tree, which not only
stores pointers for lookup, but also provides a mechanism to find free
ranges. That removes the build time hardcoded upper limit.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-4-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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The current implementation uses a static bitmap for interrupt descriptor
allocation and a radix tree to pointer store the pointer for lookup.

However, the size of the bitmap is constrained by the build time macro
MAX_SPARSE_IRQS, which may not be sufficient to support high-end servers,
particularly those with GICv4.1 hardware, which require a large interrupt
space to cover LPIs and vSGIs.

Replace the bitmap and the radix tree with a maple tree, which not only
stores pointers for lookup, but also provides a mechanism to find free
ranges. That removes the build time hardcoded upper limit.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-4-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Encapsulate sparse bitmap handling</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T09:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shanker Donthineni</name>
<email>sdonthineni@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T13:49:01+00:00</published>
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Move the open coded sparse bitmap handling into helper functions as
a preparatory step for converting the sparse interrupt management
to a maple tree.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-3-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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Move the open coded sparse bitmap handling into helper functions as
a preparatory step for converting the sparse interrupt management
to a maple tree.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-3-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Use hlist for managing resend handlers</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T09:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shanker Donthineni</name>
<email>sdonthineni@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-19T13:49:00+00:00</published>
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The current implementation utilizes a bitmap for managing interrupt resend
handlers, which is allocated based on the SPARSE_IRQ/NR_IRQS macros.
However, this method may not efficiently utilize memory during runtime,
particularly when IRQ_BITMAP_BITS is large.

Address this issue by using an hlist to manage interrupt resend handlers
instead of relying on a static bitmap memory allocation. Additionally, a
new function, clear_irq_resend(), is introduced and called from
irq_shutdown to ensure a graceful teardown of the interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-2-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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The current implementation utilizes a bitmap for managing interrupt resend
handlers, which is allocated based on the SPARSE_IRQ/NR_IRQS macros.
However, this method may not efficiently utilize memory during runtime,
particularly when IRQ_BITMAP_BITS is large.

Address this issue by using an hlist to manage interrupt resend handlers
instead of relying on a static bitmap memory allocation. Additionally, a
new function, clear_irq_resend(), is introduced and called from
irq_shutdown to ensure a graceful teardown of the interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;sdonthineni@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230519134902.1495562-2-sdonthineni@nvidia.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/irqdesc: Don't try to remove non-existing sysfs files</title>
<updated>2022-11-30T13:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Yingliang</name>
<email>yangyingliang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-28T15:16:12+00:00</published>
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Fault injection tests trigger warnings like this:

  kernfs: can not remove 'chip_name', no directory
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 253 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1616 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xce/0xe0
  RIP: 0010:kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xce/0xe0
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   remove_files.isra.1+0x3f/0xb0
   sysfs_remove_group+0x68/0xe0
   sysfs_remove_groups+0x41/0x70
   __kobject_del+0x45/0xc0
   kobject_del+0x29/0x40
   free_desc+0x42/0x70
   irq_free_descs+0x5e/0x90

The reason is that the interrupt descriptor sysfs handling does not roll
back on a failing kobject_add() during allocation. If the descriptor is
freed later on, kobject_del() is invoked with a not added kobject resulting
in the above warnings.

A proper rollback in case of a kobject_add() failure would be the straight
forward solution. But this is not possible due to the way how interrupt
descriptor sysfs handling works.

Interrupt descriptors are allocated before sysfs becomes available. So the
sysfs files for the early allocated descriptors are added later in the boot
process. At this point there can be nothing useful done about a failing
kobject_add(). For consistency the interrupt descriptor allocation always
treats kobject_add() failures as non-critical and just emits a warning.

To solve this problem, keep track in the interrupt descriptor whether
kobject_add() was successful or not and make the invocation of
kobject_del() conditional on that.

[ tglx: Massage changelog, comments and use a state bit. ]

Fixes: ecb3f394c5db ("genirq: Expose interrupt information through sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang &lt;yangyingliang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128151612.1786122-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
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Fault injection tests trigger warnings like this:

  kernfs: can not remove 'chip_name', no directory
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 253 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1616 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xce/0xe0
  RIP: 0010:kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xce/0xe0
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   remove_files.isra.1+0x3f/0xb0
   sysfs_remove_group+0x68/0xe0
   sysfs_remove_groups+0x41/0x70
   __kobject_del+0x45/0xc0
   kobject_del+0x29/0x40
   free_desc+0x42/0x70
   irq_free_descs+0x5e/0x90

The reason is that the interrupt descriptor sysfs handling does not roll
back on a failing kobject_add() during allocation. If the descriptor is
freed later on, kobject_del() is invoked with a not added kobject resulting
in the above warnings.

A proper rollback in case of a kobject_add() failure would be the straight
forward solution. But this is not possible due to the way how interrupt
descriptor sysfs handling works.

Interrupt descriptors are allocated before sysfs becomes available. So the
sysfs files for the early allocated descriptors are added later in the boot
process. At this point there can be nothing useful done about a failing
kobject_add(). For consistency the interrupt descriptor allocation always
treats kobject_add() failures as non-critical and just emits a warning.

To solve this problem, keep track in the interrupt descriptor whether
kobject_add() was successful or not and make the invocation of
kobject_del() conditional on that.

[ tglx: Massage changelog, comments and use a state bit. ]

Fixes: ecb3f394c5db ("genirq: Expose interrupt information through sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang &lt;yangyingliang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128151612.1786122-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: Synchronize interrupt thread startup</title>
<updated>2022-05-05T09:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Pfaff</name>
<email>tpfaff@pcs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T11:28:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8707898e22fd665bc1d7b18b809be4b56ce25bdd'/>
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A kernel hang can be observed when running setserial in a loop on a kernel
with force threaded interrupts. The sequence of events is:

   setserial
     open("/dev/ttyXXX")
       request_irq()
     do_stuff()
      -&gt; serial interrupt
         -&gt; wake(irq_thread)
	      desc-&gt;threads_active++;
     close()
       free_irq()
         kthread_stop(irq_thread)
     synchronize_irq() &lt;- hangs because desc-&gt;threads_active != 0

The thread is created in request_irq() and woken up, but does not get on a
CPU to reach the actual thread function, which would handle the pending
wake-up. kthread_stop() sets the should stop condition which makes the
thread immediately exit, which in turn leaves the stale threads_active
count around.

This problem was introduced with commit 519cc8652b3a, which addressed a
interrupt sharing issue in the PCIe code.

Before that commit free_irq() invoked synchronize_irq(), which waits for
the hard interrupt handler and also for associated threads to complete.

To address the PCIe issue synchronize_irq() was replaced with
__synchronize_hardirq(), which only waits for the hard interrupt handler to
complete, but not for threaded handlers.

This was done under the assumption, that the interrupt thread already
reached the thread function and waits for a wake-up, which is guaranteed to
be handled before acting on the stop condition. The problematic case, that
the thread would not reach the thread function, was obviously overlooked.

Make sure that the interrupt thread is really started and reaches
thread_fn() before returning from __setup_irq().

This utilizes the existing wait queue in the interrupt descriptor. The
wait queue is unused for non-shared interrupts. For shared interrupts the
usage might cause a spurious wake-up of a waiter in synchronize_irq() or the
completion of a threaded handler might cause a spurious wake-up of the
waiter for the ready flag. Both are harmless and have no functional impact.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Fixes: 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on free_irq()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff &lt;tpfaff@pcs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/552fe7b4-9224-b183-bb87-a8f36d335690@pcs.com
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A kernel hang can be observed when running setserial in a loop on a kernel
with force threaded interrupts. The sequence of events is:

   setserial
     open("/dev/ttyXXX")
       request_irq()
     do_stuff()
      -&gt; serial interrupt
         -&gt; wake(irq_thread)
	      desc-&gt;threads_active++;
     close()
       free_irq()
         kthread_stop(irq_thread)
     synchronize_irq() &lt;- hangs because desc-&gt;threads_active != 0

The thread is created in request_irq() and woken up, but does not get on a
CPU to reach the actual thread function, which would handle the pending
wake-up. kthread_stop() sets the should stop condition which makes the
thread immediately exit, which in turn leaves the stale threads_active
count around.

This problem was introduced with commit 519cc8652b3a, which addressed a
interrupt sharing issue in the PCIe code.

Before that commit free_irq() invoked synchronize_irq(), which waits for
the hard interrupt handler and also for associated threads to complete.

To address the PCIe issue synchronize_irq() was replaced with
__synchronize_hardirq(), which only waits for the hard interrupt handler to
complete, but not for threaded handlers.

This was done under the assumption, that the interrupt thread already
reached the thread function and waits for a wake-up, which is guaranteed to
be handled before acting on the stop condition. The problematic case, that
the thread would not reach the thread function, was obviously overlooked.

Make sure that the interrupt thread is really started and reaches
thread_fn() before returning from __setup_irq().

This utilizes the existing wait queue in the interrupt descriptor. The
wait queue is unused for non-shared interrupts. For shared interrupts the
usage might cause a spurious wake-up of a waiter in synchronize_irq() or the
completion of a threaded handler might cause a spurious wake-up of the
waiter for the ready flag. Both are harmless and have no functional impact.

[ tglx: Amended changelog ]

Fixes: 519cc8652b3a ("genirq: Synchronize only with single thread on free_irq()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Pfaff &lt;tpfaff@pcs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/552fe7b4-9224-b183-bb87-a8f36d335690@pcs.com
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