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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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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22 12:33 UTC|newest]

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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