From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:34:05 -0500 From: Anton Blanchard To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: [PATCH] Fix WARN_ON when entering xmon Message-ID: <20070320143405.GD31173@kryten> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Whenever we enter xmon we get a WARN_ON out of the rtas code since it thinks interrupts are still on: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xd000000000080008 cpu 0x3: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000000075dba00] pc: d000000000080008: .doit+0x8/0x40 [oopser] lr: c000000000077704: .sys_init_module+0x1664/0x1824 sp: c0000000075dbc80 msr: 9000000000009032 dar: 0 dsisr: 42000000 current = 0xc000000003fa64b0 paca = 0xc000000000694280 pid = 2260, comm = insmod ------------[ cut here ]------------ Badness at arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S:651 Call Trace: [C0000000075DAE70] [C00000000000EB64] .show_stack+0x68/0x1b0 (unreliable) [C0000000075DAF10] [C000000000216254] .report_bug+0x94/0xe8 [C0000000075DAFA0] [C00000000047B140] __kprobes_text_start+0x178/0x584 [C0000000075DB040] [C0000000000044F4] program_check_common+0xf4/0x100 --- Exception: 700 at .enter_rtas+0xa0/0x10c LR = .xmon_core+0x584/0x934 [C0000000075DB330] [C0000000006CD900] proc_mounts_operations+0x88/0xd8 (unreliable) [C0000000075DB510] [C0000000000418A0] .xmon_core+0x584/0x934 [C0000000075DB6A0] [C000000000041DF0] .xmon+0x38/0x4c [C0000000075DB880] [C0000000000234D0] .die+0x50/0x204 [C0000000075DB910] [C00000000002B698] .bad_page_fault+0xb8/0xd4 [C0000000075DB990] [C000000000004918] handle_page_fault+0x3c/0x58 The xmon code is playing with the msr directly, which doesnt interact well with the new irq soft disable code. Switch to using the standard macros. If we are really paranoid we could think about doing a hard disable (to avoid a potential irq + reject). Anton Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c 2007-03-12 07:53:59.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c 2007-03-12 07:56:50.000000000 -0500 @@ -330,18 +330,17 @@ static int xmon_core(struct pt_regs *regs, int fromipi) { int cmd = 0; - unsigned long msr; struct bpt *bp; long recurse_jmp[JMP_BUF_LEN]; unsigned long offset; + unsigned long flags; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP int cpu; int secondary; unsigned long timeout; #endif - msr = mfmsr(); - mtmsr(msr & ~MSR_EE); /* disable interrupts */ + local_irq_save(flags); bp = in_breakpoint_table(regs->nip, &offset); if (bp != NULL) { @@ -516,7 +515,7 @@ insert_cpu_bpts(); - mtmsr(msr); /* restore interrupt enable */ + local_irq_restore(flags); return cmd != 'X' && cmd != EOF; }