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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org, yuzenghui@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: entry: always set GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET during entry
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 15:41:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dkdnsyg.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210428152939.GB1343@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:29:39 +0100,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:19:11PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 03:41:17PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > Hi Mark,

[...]

> > > I'm a bit worried about forcing PMR to IRQON at this stage. We could
> > > have been in IRQOFF state and entering the kernel because of a
> > > NMI. Don't we risk losing track of how we made it here?
> > 
> > I also worried about this, but after digging for a while I convinced
> > myself there wasn't a problem, as:
> > 
> > * This is what local_daif_mask() does today. It sets the PMR to
> >  GIC_PRIO_IRQON | GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET regardless of its original state.
> > 
> > * For checking how we got here, we use either:
> >  - regs::pmr_save, which is sampled (immediately) before we alter HW PMR
> >    in the asm above.
> >  - DAIF, which is unaffected by this.
> > 
> > * This is transparent to local_irq_save() .. local_irq_restore(), as
> >   that blindly saves/restores the PMR.
> > 
> 
> ... oh, and within the GIC driver:
> 
> * for a pNMI, we'll leave both PMR and DAIF as-is
> 
> * for an IRQ, we'll set the PMU to GIC_PRIO_IRQOFF (regardless of the
>   original value), then unmask DAIF.
> 
> ... so that'll do the right thing even if we enter with PMR set to
> (GIC_PRIO_IRQON | CIG_PRIO_PSR_I_SET).

Fair enough. FWIW:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

	M.

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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-28 11:15 [PATCH] arm64: entry: always set GIC_PRIO_PSR_I_SET during entry Mark Rutland
2021-04-28 14:41 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-04-28 15:19   ` Mark Rutland
2021-04-28 15:29     ` Mark Rutland
2021-05-05 14:41       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-05-05 17:42 ` Catalin Marinas

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