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From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	maz@kernel.org, lpieralisi@kernel.org, ruanjinjie@huawei.com,
	liaochang1@huawei.com
Subject: [PATCH 01/38] arm64: irqflags: Introduce arm64-specific irqflags type
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:20:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914102102.68597-2-vladimir.murzin@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914102102.68597-1-vladimir.murzin@arm.com>

From: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>

With pseudo-NMIs enabled, we have two mechanisms that control
interrupt masking in parallel :
- The DAIF flags, masking at the CPU
- The GIC PMR, masking before the CPU

However, our irqflags implementation currently assumes that only one
of the two is used at a time, so both DAIF and PMR masking use the same
`unsigned long flags` in their own way.
This is incorrect, as some parts of the kernel will mask interrupts
with DAIF directly or bypass the local_irq masking via the PMR,
and makes tracking the state and changes of both in parallel impossible.

The irqflags API expects `unsigned long`s to be passed around, but
they should not be manipulated outside of the arch-specific code.
So, we can encode the information we need however we want as long as
we return and accept `unsigned long`s.

Introduce a union type for arm64 irqflags whose first member is
a struct allowing us to track DAIF and PMR in parallel, and the second
is the `unsigned long` expected by the irqflags API.

DAIF is a two byte value, to maintain compatibility with existing defines.
PMR is a one byte value, which is the maximum amount of priority bits
allowed by the GICv3 architecture.

Update the internal irqflags functions to use this new union and convert
back and forth with the irqflags unsigned long.
There should be no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
index a8cb5a5c93b7..5c17e26727f9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/sysreg.h>
 
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
 /*
  * Aarch64 has flags for masking: Debug, Asynchronous (serror), Interrupts and
  * FIQ exceptions, in the 'daif' register. We mask and unmask them in 'daif'
@@ -20,6 +22,24 @@
  * exceptions should be unmasked.
  */
 
+ /*
+  * Internally, we want to independently manipulate and track the different
+  * interrupt masking mechanisms.
+  * Externally, the generic irqflags API expects unsgined longs to represent
+  * the state of interrupts, which are treated as obscure arch-specific data.
+  */
+typedef union arm64_exc_hwstate {
+	struct {
+		u16 daif;
+		u8 pmr;
+		u8 __pad0;
+		u32 __pad1;
+	};
+	unsigned long flags;
+} arm64_exc_hwstate_t;
+
+static_assert(sizeof(arm64_exc_hwstate_t) == sizeof(unsigned long));
+
 static __always_inline void __daif_local_irq_enable(void)
 {
 	barrier();
@@ -79,12 +99,16 @@ static __always_inline void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
 
 static __always_inline unsigned long __daif_local_save_flags(void)
 {
-	return read_sysreg(daif);
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .daif = read_sysreg(daif) };
+
+	return hwstate.flags;
 }
 
 static __always_inline unsigned long __pmr_local_save_flags(void)
 {
-	return read_sysreg_s(SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1);
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .pmr = read_sysreg_s(SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1) };
+
+	return hwstate.flags;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -101,12 +125,16 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long arch_local_save_flags(void)
 
 static __always_inline bool __daif_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
 {
-	return flags & PSR_I_BIT;
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .flags = flags };
+
+	return hwstate.daif & PSR_I_BIT;
 }
 
 static __always_inline bool __pmr_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
 {
-	return flags != GIC_PRIO_IRQON;
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .flags = flags };
+
+	return hwstate.pmr != GIC_PRIO_IRQON;
 }
 
 static __always_inline bool arch_irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
@@ -171,15 +199,19 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long arch_local_irq_save(void)
 
 static __always_inline void __daif_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
 {
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .flags = flags };
+
 	barrier();
-	write_sysreg(flags, daif);
+	write_sysreg(hwstate.daif, daif);
 	barrier();
 }
 
 static __always_inline void __pmr_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
 {
+	arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate = { .flags = flags };
+
 	barrier();
-	write_sysreg_s(flags, SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1);
+	write_sysreg_s(hwstate.pmr, SYS_ICC_PMR_EL1);
 	pmr_sync();
 	barrier();
 }
-- 
2.34.1



  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-14 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-14 10:20 [PATCH 00/38] arm64: Add support for FEAT_NMI Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` Vladimir Murzin [this message]
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 02/38] arm64: irqflags: save and use both DAIF and PMR Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 03/38] arm64: interrupts: Add common exception state helpers Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17  8:58   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-17  9:10   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 14:10     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-21 23:13       ` Ashok Raj
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 04/38] arm64: process: Lift check for exception state to generic infrastructure Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 05/38] arm64: entry: Introduce entry specific exception masking helpers Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17  9:53   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 14:15     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 06/38] arm64: entry: replace DAIF helpers with entry helpers Vladimir Murzin
     [not found]   ` <15bc779f-e6f5-4c2a-a629-cb020f12a41a@huawei.com>
2026-09-21 14:01     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 07/38] arm64: interrupts: Introduce exception masking save/restore helpers Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 08/38] arm64: interrupts: introduce a helper for GIC priority initialization Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 09/38] arm64: replace local_daif helpers Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17  8:14   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 14:07     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 10/38] arm64: cpuidle: use new helpers to bypass interrupt priority masking Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 11/38] arm64: remove daifflags.h Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 12/38] arm64: gicv3: remove GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 13/38] arm64: cpufeature: Remove system_has_prio_mask_debugging() Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 14/38] arm64: irqflags: Switch to CONFIG_DEBUG_IRQFLAGS Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 15/38] arm64: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_ARM64_DEBUG_PRIORITY_MASKING Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 16/38] efi/runtime-wrappers: Permit architectures to override IRQ flags checks Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 17/38] arm64/efi: Implement override for " Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 18/38] arm64: booting: Document boot requirements for FEAT_NMI Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 19/38] arm64: sysreg: Add definitions for immediate versions of MSR ALLINT Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 20/38] arm64: probes: Reject stepping over ALLINT Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-16  8:53   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 21/38] arm64: ptrace: Add PSR_ALLINT_BIT Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 22/38] arm64: idreg: Add an override for FEAT_NMI Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 23/38] arm64: cpufeature: Detect PE support " Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-16  9:22   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 13:53     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 24/38] arm64: nmi: Manage masking for superpriority interrupts Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17 11:41   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 14:23     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 25/38] arm64: irq: Report FEAT_NMI masking local IRQs Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 26/38] arm64: nmi: Add handling of superpriority interrupts as NMIs Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17 11:37   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 14:16     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 27/38] arm64: suspend: Always initialise PSTATE.ALLINT Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 28/38] arm64/efi: Add ALLINT to IRQ flags checks Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 29/38] arm64: kprobes: Disable NMIs Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 30/38] arm64: smp: Abstract SGI and LPI operations Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-16  9:01   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 13:44     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 31/38] arm64: smp: Fall back to IRQ when IPI NMI request fails Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 32/38] arm64: nmi: Add Kconfig for NMI Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-16  9:06   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-21 13:47     ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 33/38] irqchip/gic-v3: Rename nmi to pseudo_nmi Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 34/38] irqchip/gic-v3: Implement FEAT_GICv3_NMI support Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:20 ` [PATCH 35/38] arm64: smp: Add NMI support for LPI-backed IPIs Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-14 10:21 ` [PATCH 36/38] genirq: Trust local irqchip when considering IRQ for NMI Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17 12:06   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-14 10:21 ` [PATCH 37/38] genirq: Do not call add_interrupt_randomness() in NMI context Vladimir Murzin
2026-09-17 11:55   ` Jinjie Ruan
2026-09-14 10:21 ` [PATCH 38/38] irqchip/gic-v5: Add NMI support Vladimir Murzin

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