From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.windriver.com", Issuer "Intel External Basic Issuing CA 3A" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EB162C0114 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:01:26 +1100 (EST) From: Tiejun Chen To: , Subject: [v1][PATCH 1/1] ppc64: max next_tb to prevent from replaying timer interrupt Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:01:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1358305279-19068-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , With lazy interrupt, we always call __check_irq_replaysome with decrementers_next_tb to check if we need to replay timer interrupt. So in hotplug case we also need to set decrementers_next_tb as MAX to make sure __check_irq_replay don't replay timer interrupt when return as we expect, otherwise we'll trap here infinitely. Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen --- v1: * In hotplug case we max decrementers_next_tb to prevent from replaying timer interrupt for any offline CPU. arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 6f6b1cc..127361e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c @@ -494,10 +494,15 @@ void timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs * regs) set_dec(DECREMENTER_MAX); /* Some implementations of hotplug will get timer interrupts while - * offline, just ignore these + * offline, just ignore these and we also need to set + * decrementers_next_tb as MAX to make sure __check_irq_replay + * don't replay timer interrupt when return, otherwise we'll trap + * here infinitely :( */ - if (!cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) + if (!cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) { + *next_tb = ~(u64)0; return; + } /* Conditionally hard-enable interrupts now that the DEC has been * bumped to its maximum value -- 1.7.9.5