[PATCH 3.13 30/32] sparc64: Make sure %pil interrupts are enabled during hypervisor yield.

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-21T04:37:43Z

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

[ Upstream commit cb3042d609e30e6144024801c89be3925106752b ]

In arch_cpu_idle() we must enable %pil based interrupts before
potentially invoking the hypervisor cpu yield call.

As per the Hypervisor API documentation for cpu_yield:

Interrupts which are blocked by some mechanism other that
pstate.ie (for example %pil) are not guaranteed to cause
a return from this service.

It seems that only first generation Niagara chips are hit by this
bug. My best guess is that later chips implement this in hardware
and wake up anyways from %pil events, whereas in first generation
chips the yield is implemented completely in hypervisor code and
requires %pil to be enabled in order to wake properly from this
call.

Fixes: 87fa05aeb3a5 ("sparc: Use generic idle loop")
Reported-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -58,9 +58,12 @@ void arch_cpu_idle(void)
{
if (tlb_type != hypervisor) {
touch_nmi_watchdog();
+ local_irq_enable();
} else {
unsigned long pstate;

+ local_irq_enable();
+
/* The sun4v sleeping code requires that we have PSTATE.IE cleared over
* the cpu sleep hypervisor call.
*/
@@ -82,7 +85,6 @@ void arch_cpu_idle(void)
: "=&r" (pstate)
: "i" (PSTATE_IE));
}
- local_irq_enable();
}

#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU