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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>,
	"paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Rowand, Frank" <Frank_Rowand@sonyusa.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@tglx.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:46:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110907104633.GR6619@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1109071115410.2723@ionos>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:25:29AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This smells badly like the problem we've seen on x86 before. And
> looking at the arm SMP boot code:
> 
> asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_start_kernel(void)
> {
> 	.....
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Give the platform a chance to do its own initialisation.
> 	 */
> 	platform_secondary_init(cpu);
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Enable local interrupts.
> 	 */
> 	notify_cpu_starting(cpu);
> 	local_irq_enable();
> 
> Here we enable interrupts, but the CPU is neither online nor active.
> 
> 	local_fiq_enable();

That's intentional.  Some of the code below needs IRQs enabled.

I think we had this reported before and I got to the bottom of it - the
platform was doing something it shouldn't.  I don't remember the details,
maybe when all the emails come through I can see the original bug report
I'll remember.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-13 10:53 [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11 Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-13 11:48 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-13 11:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-13 13:59     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-13 14:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-13 16:27       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-14  4:23         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-16 14:17           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2011-08-16 15:10             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-16 15:18               ` Nivedita Singhvi
2011-08-16 19:31               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-17  4:28                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-17  5:03                   ` Nivedita Singhvi
2011-08-15 10:09         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-14 21:19 ` Clark Williams
2011-08-23 14:12 ` [patch] sched, rt: fix migrate_enable() thinko Mike Galbraith
2011-09-08  2:11   ` Frank Rowand
2011-09-08  4:58     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-08-24 23:58 ` [ANNOUNCE] 3.0.1-rt11 Frank Rowand
2011-08-26 23:55   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-29 19:57     ` Frank Rowand
2011-08-30  3:17       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-07  2:53     ` Frank Rowand
2011-09-07  3:00       ` Frank Rowand
2011-09-07  6:42       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-09-07  9:25       ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 10:46         ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-09-07 10:47           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-07 10:57             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 14:01               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-07 16:32                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-09-07 16:33                 ` Frank Rowand

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