From: linz <powertree@163.com>
To: "Philippe Gerum" <rpm@xenomai.org>, xenomai@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] irqchip: gic-v3-its: irq_pipeline: Fix OOB context in-band lock warning for ITS lock
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:32:02 +0800 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517534d7.8863.19efe1f45f1.Coremail.powertree@163.com> (raw)
Hi, I find a call trace when I use v6.6.y-dovetail + xenomai v3.3 branch, the call trace is as follows
[ 1.510903] IRQ pipeline: some code running in oob context 'Xenomai'
called an in-band only routine
[ 1.510912] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G S 6.6.63-dovetail2 #8
[ 1.510918] Hardware name: Pe2204 DEMO DDR4 (DT)
[ 1.510920] IRQ stage: Xenomai
[ 1.510923] Call trace:
[ 1.510926] dump_backtrace+0x90/0xe4
[ 1.510940] show_stack+0x14/0x1c
[ 1.510946] dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xc8
[ 1.510953] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[ 1.510957] check_inband_stage+0xb0/0xc8
[ 1.510965] inband_irq_save+0xc/0x28
[ 1.510971] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x14/0x90
[ 1.510977] its_send_single_command+0x24/0x154
[ 1.510984] lpi_update_config+0x9c/0x144
[ 1.510990] its_mask_irq+0x2c/0x64
[ 1.510997] irq_chip_mask_parent+0x18/0x20
[ 1.511005] its_mask_msi_irq+0x1c/0x28
[ 1.511012] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x1cc/0x2b4
[ 1.511016] generic_pipeline_irq_desc+0x6c/0xa4
[ 1.511021] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x18/0x20
[ 1.511028] gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
[ 1.511032] handle_irq_pipelined+0x40/0x64
[ 1.511038] call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x30
[ 1.511044] do_interrupt_handler+0x138/0x158
[ 1.511050] el1_interrupt+0x40/0x110
[ 1.511055] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x14/0x1c
[ 1.511061] el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68
[ 1.511064] default_idle_call+0x30/0x78
[ 1.511071] do_idle+0x128/0x150
[ 1.511077] cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x38
[ 1.511081] kernel_init+0x0/0x1d4
[ 1.511088] arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x8
[ 1.511096] start_kernel+0x504/0x5cc
[ 1.511103] __primary_switched+0xbc/0xc4
The function call causing the issue is as follows:
generic_handle_domain_irq
=> generic_pipeline_irq_desc
=> generic_handle_irq_desc
=> handle_fasteoi_irq
=> mask_cond_eoi_irq
=> mask_irq
=> its_mask_msi_irq
=> irq_chip_mask_parent
=> its_mask_irq
=> lpi_update_config
=> its_send_inv
=> BUILD_SINGLE_CMD_FUNC
=> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&its->lock, flags);
On Dovetail-enabled kernels with Xenomai IRQ pipeline, GICv3 ITS interrupt handling runs in OOB (out-of-band) interrupt context. The original raw_spinlock_t used for its_node->lock invokes the standard in-band-only raw_spin_lock_irqsave() interface.
This triggers the following pipeline context violation warning: IRQ pipeline: some code running in oob context 'Xenomai' called an in-band only routine
raw_spin_lock_irqsave() is an in-band exclusive API and cannot be safely called from Xenomai OOB interrupt context, which violates the IRQ pipeline isolation rules.
I think that fix this by replacing raw_spinlock_t with hybrid_spinlock_t for the ITS node lock. The hybrid spinlock supports both in-band Linux kernel context and OOB Xenomai pipeline context, adapting lock/irqsave logic dynamically according to the running context, eliminating the context mismatch warning while guaranteeing lock mutual exclusion.
The fixed up patch is as follows:
From 1037fcf6d75ecf37e1caf283d1198177e7410be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zhanglin <powertree@163.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:56:31 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] irqchip: gic-v3-its: irq_pipeline: fix OOB context in-band
lock warning for ITS lock
---
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
index 0e57735eac..847b008b71 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3-its.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ struct its_device;
* list.
*/
struct its_node {
- raw_spinlock_t lock;
+ hybrid_spinlock_t lock;
struct mutex dev_alloc_lock;
struct list_head entry;
void __iomem *base;
--
2.34.1
Please help to review it, thank you.
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-25 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-25 9:32 linz [this message]
2026-07-10 10:12 ` [PATCH] irqchip: gic-v3-its: irq_pipeline: Fix OOB context in-band lock warning for ITS lock Jan Kiszka
2026-07-10 10:59 ` Florian Bezdeka
2026-07-13 10:20 ` linz
2026-07-13 10:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2026-07-13 10:42 ` [PATCH v2] irqchip: gic-v3-its: irq_pipeline: fix OOB context in-band lock warning for ITS lock using hard spinlocks instead of hybrid spinlocks linz
2026-07-13 10:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2026-07-14 3:43 ` [PATCH v2] irqchip: gic-v3-its: irq_pipeline: Fix OOB context in-band lock warning for ITS lock linz
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