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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: use local var instead of local_paca->irq_happened directly in __check_irq_replay
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:10:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336090207.18712.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA31653.5090103@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 07:35 +0800, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> > No, Only comment the test, you must absolutely leave the
> > __hard_irq_disable() call ! That's the whole point of the test, make
> > sure we unconditionally disable to see if that fixes the problem, in
> > which case that will tell us that we somewhere accidentally leave
> > irq_happened set to 0x01 while irqs are hard enabled.
> 
> It can work.
> My system has been running for about 15 hours without crash.

Ok, so now we need to understand under what circumstances we end up
in a situation where paca->irq_happened is 0x01 and IRQs are hard
enabled. I have a few ideas of things to look at but I'm also off
for the week-end.

I'll have a look next week.

Cheers,
Ben.

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: use local var instead of local_paca->irq_happened directly in __check_irq_replay
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:10:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336090207.18712.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA31653.5090103@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 07:35 +0800, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> > No, Only comment the test, you must absolutely leave the
> > __hard_irq_disable() call ! That's the whole point of the test, make
> > sure we unconditionally disable to see if that fixes the problem, in
> > which case that will tell us that we somewhere accidentally leave
> > irq_happened set to 0x01 while irqs are hard enabled.
> 
> It can work.
> My system has been running for about 15 hours without crash.

Ok, so now we need to understand under what circumstances we end up
in a situation where paca->irq_happened is 0x01 and IRQs are hard
enabled. I have a few ideas of things to look at but I'm also off
for the week-end.

I'll have a look next week.

Cheers,
Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03  1:53 [PATCH] powerpc: use local var instead of local_paca->irq_happened directly in __check_irq_replay Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  2:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  2:15   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  2:27   ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  2:27     ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  2:32   ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  2:32     ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  4:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  4:26       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  4:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  4:22     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  5:51     ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  5:51       ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  6:52       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  6:52         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  6:33     ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  6:33       ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  6:59       ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  6:59         ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03  8:09         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03  8:09           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-03 23:35           ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-03 23:35             ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-04  0:10             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-05-04  0:10               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-08  3:46               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-08  3:46                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-10  5:37                 ` Wang Sheng-Hui
2012-05-10  5:37                   ` Wang Sheng-Hui

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