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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Aaron Tokhy <atokhy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Soft lockup on Linux 2.6.27, 2 patches, Cell/PPC64
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:53:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224103989.8157.469.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810151355470.1133@vixen.sonytel.be>

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:05 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I guess it's auto-enabled when the decrementer interrupt handler exits?
> So shouldn't there be a `bl trace_hardirqs_on' somewhere?

The interrupts are restored to their previous state on exit of
interrupts via the TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ() macro which is called
from entry_64.S in the main restore path and in head_64.S in the
fast path and hashing faults.

Cheers,
Ben.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-12  4:32 [PROBLEM] Soft lockup on Linux 2.6.27, 2 patches, Cell/PPC64 Aaron Tokhy
2008-10-13  7:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-14  9:32   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15  4:49     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-15  9:25       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15  9:28         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-15  9:46           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15 11:37             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-15 11:46               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15 11:49                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-15 12:05                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-15 20:53                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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