A problem about interrupt when booting a captured kernel

[marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)]

On 19/11/15 03:42, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015/11/17 17:16, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:48:07 +0800
>> Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On 2015/11/17 3:26, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> On 13/11/15 10:09, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>>>>> Hi, Marc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        The kexec will boot a captured kernel while the kernel panic. But
>>>>> it boots failed if the kernel panic in handler function of PPI. The
>>>>> reason is that the PPI has not been 'eoi', other interrupts can not be
>>>>> handled when booting  the captured kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>>        The kexec will call irq_eoi to end the irqs that have
>>>>> IRQD_IRQ_INPROGRESS flag. But PPIs don't have this flag, so it won't be
>>>>> ended.
>>>>>
>>>>>       Three ways to solve this problem we can think :
>>>>>       1. Is there a way to reset gic like its_reset ?
>>>>>       2. Can we add some flag for calling irq_eoi ?
>>>>>       3. Just 'eoi' all PPIs without checking flags in kexec.
>>>>>
>>>>>        Please give some advice.
>>>>
>>>> Good timing. Please see:
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-November/385383.html
>>>>
>>>> and let me know if that fixes things for you.
>>>
>>> I tried patch #1, deactivating interrupt can not fix the problem. But
>>> EOI the interrupt can.
>>
>> You have noticed that this patch is for ARM, not arm64, right?
> 
> Yes, I noticed.
> 
>>
>>> I think the reason is GICC status is not cleared.
>>> So if it means, in hardware, we should clear the GICC status while
>>> deactivating the.
>>
>> Writing to the EOI register or writing to the ACTIVE register have the
>> exact same result as far as kexec is concerned (unless your GIC is not
>> compliant with the architecture - in which case I can't help you).
>>
>> Does applying the other patches help?
> 
> No, it doesn't help.

That's pretty annoying. It means that on your implementation, clearing
the ACTIVE bit doesn't deactivate an interrupt. Great! This probably
also break KVM's guest timer in 4.3.

Using EOI won't help either because you don't know whether to do a
priority drop (which has to happen in reverse order w.r.t. the read of
IAR) or a deactivate (and no matter how many flag you add, you still
won't know).

Can you please get in touch with your HW folks so that they can explain:
1) why it doesn't work,
2) if there is any workaround.

Thanks,

	M.
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