From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] irqchip: gic-v3: Reset BPR during initialization
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:33:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BAF105.1080604@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471623195-7829-2-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
On 19/08/16 17:13, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> Currently, when running on FVP, CPU 0 boots up with its BPR changed from
> the reset value. This renders it impossible to (preemptively) prioritize
> interrupts on CPU 0.
>
> This is harmless on normal systems since Linux typically does not
> support preemptive interrupts. It does however cause problems in
> systems with additional changes (such as patches for NMI simulation).
>
> Many thanks to Andrew Thoelke for suggesting the BPR as having the
> potential to harm preemption.
>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Thoelke <andrew.thoelke@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
M.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-19 16:13 [RFC PATCH v3 0/7] Pseudo-NMI for arm64 using ICC_PMR_EL1 (GICv3) Daniel Thompson
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/7] irqchip: gic-v3: Reset BPR during initialization Daniel Thompson
2016-08-22 12:33 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/7] arm64: Add support for on-demand backtrace of other CPUs Daniel Thompson
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/7] arm64: cpufeature: Allow early detect of specific features Daniel Thompson
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/7] arm64: alternative: Apply alternatives early in boot process Daniel Thompson
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/7] arm64: irqflags: Reorder the fiq & async macros Daniel Thompson
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: irqflags: Use ICC sysregs to implement IRQ masking Daniel Thompson
2016-08-22 10:12 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-08-22 14:24 ` Daniel Thompson
2016-08-22 15:06 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-08-25 13:23 ` Daniel Thompson
2016-08-25 13:54 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-08-19 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v3 7/7] arm64: Implement IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE using pseudo-NMIs Daniel Thompson
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