Re: powerpc/powernv: move OPAL call wrapper tracing and interrupt handling to C

[Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>]

On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 09:30:35 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The OPAL call wrapper gets interrupt disabling wrong. It disables
> interrupts just by clearing MSR[EE], which has two problems:
> 
> - It doesn't call into the IRQ tracing subsystem, which means tracing
>   across OPAL calls does not always notice IRQs have been disabled.
> 
> - It doesn't go through the IRQ soft-mask code, which causes a minor
>   bug. MSR[EE] can not be restored by saving the MSR then clearing
>   MSR[EE], because a racing interrupt while soft-masked could clear
>   MSR[EE] between the two steps. This can cause MSR[EE] to be
>   incorrectly enabled when the OPAL call returns. Fortunately that
>   should only result in another masked interrupt being taken to
>   disable MSR[EE] again, but it's a bit sloppy.
> 
> The existing code also saves MSR to PACA, which is not re-entrant if
> there is a nested OPAL call from different MSR contexts, which can
> happen these days with SRESET interrupts on bare metal.
> 
> To fix these issues, move the tracing and IRQ handling code to C, and
> call into asm just for the low level call when everything is ready to
> go. Save the MSR on stack rather than PACA.
> 
> Performance cost is kept to a minimum with a few optimisations:
> 
> - The endian switch upon return is combined with the MSR restore,
>   which avoids an expensive context synchronizing operation for LE
>   kernels. This makes up for the additional mtmsrd to enable
>   interrupts with local_irq_enable().
> 
> - blr is now used to return from the opal_* functions that are called
>   as C functions, to avoid link stack corruption. This requires a
>   skiboot fix as well to keep the call stack balanced.
> 
> A NULL call is more costly after this, (410ns->430ns on POWER9), but
> OPAL calls are generally not performance critical at this scale.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/75d9fc7fd94eb43cdf0bec04499a27ce

cheers