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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [2/4] powerpc/64: do not trace irqs-off at interrupt return to soft-disabled context
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:39:28 +1100 (AEDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ywyXc72Dlz9t88@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171116160052.18672-3-npiggin@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:00:50 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> When an interrupt is returning to a soft-disabled context (which can
> happen for non-maskable interrupts or synchronous interrupts), it goes
> through the motions of soft-disabling again, including calling
> TRACE_DISABLE_INTS (i.e., trace_hardirqs_off()).
> 
> This is not necessary, because we must already be soft-disabled in the
> interrupt context, it also may be causing crashes in the irq tracing
> code to re-enter as an nmi. Replace it with a warning to ensure that
> soft-interrupts are still disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/acb1feab320e38588fccc568e37677

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-12 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-16 16:00 [PATCH 0/4] interrupt tracing fixes Nicholas Piggin
2017-11-16 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: define __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED Nicholas Piggin
2018-01-22  3:34   ` [1/4] " Michael Ellerman
2017-11-16 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: do not trace irqs-off at interrupt return to soft-disabled context Nicholas Piggin
2017-12-04  5:09   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-04  6:07     ` Nicholas Piggin
2017-12-04 12:55       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-04 16:12     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-12-05  5:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2017-12-12 11:39   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2017-11-16 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] cpuidle/powernv: avoid double irq enable coming out of idle Nicholas Piggin
2018-01-22  3:34   ` [3/4] " Michael Ellerman
2017-11-16 16:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] " Nicholas Piggin
2018-01-22  3:34   ` [4/4] " Michael Ellerman

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