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<title>powerpc/time: Handle wrapping of decrementer</title>
<updated>2012-01-12T19:29:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
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<published>2011-11-23T20:07:17+00:00</published>
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commit 37fb9a0231ee43d42d069863bdfd567fca2b61af upstream.

When re-enabling interrupts we have code to handle edge sensitive
decrementers by resetting the decrementer to 1 whenever it is negative.
If interrupts were disabled long enough that the decrementer wrapped to
positive we do nothing. This means interrupts can be delayed for a long
time until it finally goes negative again.

While we hope interrupts are never be disabled long enough for the
decrementer to go positive, we have a very good test team that can
drive any kernel into the ground. The softlockup data we get back
from these fails could be seconds in the future, completely missing
the cause of the lockup.

We already keep track of the timebase of the next event so use that
to work out if we should trigger a decrementer exception.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 37fb9a0231ee43d42d069863bdfd567fca2b61af upstream.

When re-enabling interrupts we have code to handle edge sensitive
decrementers by resetting the decrementer to 1 whenever it is negative.
If interrupts were disabled long enough that the decrementer wrapped to
positive we do nothing. This means interrupts can be delayed for a long
time until it finally goes negative again.

While we hope interrupts are never be disabled long enough for the
decrementer to go positive, we have a very good test team that can
drive any kernel into the ground. The softlockup data we get back
from these fails could be seconds in the future, completely missing
the cause of the lockup.

We already keep track of the timebase of the next event so use that
to work out if we should trigger a decrementer exception.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: various straight conversions from module.h --&gt; export.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T22:24:23+00:00</published>
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack</title>
<updated>2011-07-22T03:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-18T17:17:22+00:00</published>
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We already did it for hard IRQs but it looks like we forgot
to do it for softirqs. Without this, we would lose flags
such as TIF_NEED_RESCHED set using current_thread_info()
by something running of a softirq.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We already did it for hard IRQs but it looks like we forgot
to do it for softirqs. Without this, we would lose flags
such as TIF_NEED_RESCHED set using current_thread_info()
by something running of a softirq.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks</title>
<updated>2011-07-19T05:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-07T20:35:38+00:00</published>
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HFI creates interrupts each time a window is setup. This results in
a lot of messages in the kernel log buffer:

    irq: irq 199007 on host null mapped to virtual irq 351

This box has over 3500 of them, causing more important kernel
messages to be overwritten. We can get at this information via
debugfs now so we may as well turn it into a pr_debug.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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HFI creates interrupts each time a window is setup. This results in
a lot of messages in the kernel log buffer:

    irq: irq 199007 on host null mapped to virtual irq 351

This box has over 3500 of them, causing more important kernel
messages to be overwritten. We can get at this information via
debugfs now so we may as well turn it into a pr_debug.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3e-64: Reraise doorbell when masked by soft-irq-disable</title>
<updated>2011-06-29T06:40:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Scott Wood</name>
<email>scottwood@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-22T11:19:49+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: make irq_choose_cpu() available to all PIC drivers</title>
<updated>2011-06-23T02:44:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stuart Yoder</name>
<email>stuart.yoder@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T13:54:26+00:00</published>
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Move irq_choose_cpu() into arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c so that it can be used
by other PIC drivers.  The function is not MPIC-specific.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Move irq_choose_cpu() into arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c so that it can be used
by other PIC drivers.  The function is not MPIC-specific.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix irq_free_virt by adjusting bounds before loop</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T03:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:34:18+00:00</published>
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Instead of looping over each irq and checking against the irq array
bounds, adjust the bounds before looping.

The old code will not free any irq if the irq + count is above
irq_virq_count because the test in the loop is testing irq + count
instead of irq + i.

This code checks the limits to avoid unsigned integer overflows.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Instead of looping over each irq and checking against the irq array
bounds, adjust the bounds before looping.

The old code will not free any irq if the irq + count is above
irq_virq_count because the test in the loop is testing irq + count
instead of irq + i.

This code checks the limits to avoid unsigned integer overflows.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Protect irq_radix_revmap_lookup against irq_free_virt</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T03:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:34:18+00:00</published>
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The radix-tree code uses call_rcu when freeing internal elements.
We must protect against the elements being freed while we traverse
the tree, even if the returned pointer will still be valid.

While preparing a patch to expand the context in which
irq_radix_revmap_lookup will be called, I realized that the
radix tree was not locked.

When asked

    For a normal call_rcu usage, is it allowed to read the structure in
    irq_enter / irq_exit, without additional rcu_read_lock?  Could an
    element freed with call_rcu advance with the cpu still between
    irq_enter/irq_exit (and irq_disabled())?

Paul McKenney replied:

    Absolutely illegal to do so. OK for call_rcu_sched(), but a
    flaming bug for call_rcu().

    And thank you very much for finding this!!!

Further analysis:

In the current CONFIG_TREE_RCU implementation. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
(and CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU) uses explicit counters.

These counters are reflected from per-CPU to global in the
scheduling-clock-interrupt handler, so disabling irq does prevent the
grace period from completing. But there are real-time implementations
(such as the one use by the Concurrent guys) where disabling irq
does -not- prevent the grace period from completing.

While an alternative fix would be to switch radix-tree to rcu_sched, I
don't want to audit the other users of radix trees (nor put alternative
freeing in the library).  The normal overhead for rcu_read_lock and
unlock are a local counter increment and decrement.

This does not show up in the rcu lockdep because in 2.6.34 commit
2676a58c98 (radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree)
deemed it too hard to pass the condition of the protecting lock
to the library.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The radix-tree code uses call_rcu when freeing internal elements.
We must protect against the elements being freed while we traverse
the tree, even if the returned pointer will still be valid.

While preparing a patch to expand the context in which
irq_radix_revmap_lookup will be called, I realized that the
radix tree was not locked.

When asked

    For a normal call_rcu usage, is it allowed to read the structure in
    irq_enter / irq_exit, without additional rcu_read_lock?  Could an
    element freed with call_rcu advance with the cpu still between
    irq_enter/irq_exit (and irq_disabled())?

Paul McKenney replied:

    Absolutely illegal to do so. OK for call_rcu_sched(), but a
    flaming bug for call_rcu().

    And thank you very much for finding this!!!

Further analysis:

In the current CONFIG_TREE_RCU implementation. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
(and CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU) uses explicit counters.

These counters are reflected from per-CPU to global in the
scheduling-clock-interrupt handler, so disabling irq does prevent the
grace period from completing. But there are real-time implementations
(such as the one use by the Concurrent guys) where disabling irq
does -not- prevent the grace period from completing.

While an alternative fix would be to switch radix-tree to rcu_sched, I
don't want to audit the other users of radix trees (nor put alternative
freeing in the library).  The normal overhead for rcu_read_lock and
unlock are a local counter increment and decrement.

This does not show up in the rcu lockdep because in 2.6.34 commit
2676a58c98 (radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree)
deemed it too hard to pass the condition of the protecting lock
to the library.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Check desc in handle_one_irq and expand generic_handle_irq</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T03:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:34:18+00:00</published>
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Look up the descriptor and check that it is found in handle_one_irq
before checking if we are on the irq stack, and call the handler
directly using the descriptor if we are on the stack.

We need check irq_to_desc finds the descriptor to avoid a NULL
pointer dereference.  It could have failed because the number from
ppc_md.get_irq was above NR_IRQS, or various exceptional conditions
with sparse irqs (eg race conditions while freeing an irq if its was
not shutdown in the controller).

fe12bc2c99 (genirq: Uninline and sanity check generic_handle_irq())
moved generic_handle_irq out of line to allow its use by interrupt
controllers in modules.  However, handle_one_irq is core arch code.
It already knows the details of struct irq_desc and handling irqs in
the nested irq case.  This will avoid the extra stack frame to return
the value we don't check.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Look up the descriptor and check that it is found in handle_one_irq
before checking if we are on the irq stack, and call the handler
directly using the descriptor if we are on the stack.

We need check irq_to_desc finds the descriptor to avoid a NULL
pointer dereference.  It could have failed because the number from
ppc_md.get_irq was above NR_IRQS, or various exceptional conditions
with sparse irqs (eg race conditions while freeing an irq if its was
not shutdown in the controller).

fe12bc2c99 (genirq: Uninline and sanity check generic_handle_irq())
moved generic_handle_irq out of line to allow its use by interrupt
controllers in modules.  However, handle_one_irq is core arch code.
It already knows the details of struct irq_desc and handling irqs in
the nested irq case.  This will avoid the extra stack frame to return
the value we don't check.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Always free duplicate IRQ_LEGACY hosts</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T03:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Milton Miller</name>
<email>miltonm@bga.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:34:17+00:00</published>
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Since kmem caches are allocated before init_IRQ as noted in 3af259d155
(powerpc: Radix trees are available before init_IRQ), we now call
kmalloc in all cases and can can always call kfree if we are asked
to allocate a duplicate or conflicting IRQ_HOST_MAP_LEGACY host.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Since kmem caches are allocated before init_IRQ as noted in 3af259d155
(powerpc: Radix trees are available before init_IRQ), we now call
kmalloc in all cases and can can always call kfree if we are asked
to allocate a duplicate or conflicting IRQ_HOST_MAP_LEGACY host.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller &lt;miltonm@bga.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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