[RFC] Fix for interrupt distribution

Mohan Kumar M mohan at in.ibm.com
Fri Nov 17 23:12:24 EST 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:36:16AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for fixing this problem. One thing I noticed in the patch:
> 
> > +	np = cpuid_to_of_node(boot_cpuid);
> > +	BUG_ON(!np);
> > +	ireg = get_property(np, "ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s", &ilen);
> > +	hcpuid = get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid);
> > +
> > +	if (ireg[0] == hcpuid)
> > +		default_distrib_server = ireg[1];
> > +	else
> > +		default_distrib_server = ireg[3];
> 
> While this will work on current firmware it would be more robust to loop
> through interrupt-gserver#s until you find your cpuid. For example we
> set up multiple interrupt-gserver#s entries in the lab so we can have
> chip, node local and global targets:
> 
> ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s
> 	00000002 00000003
> 
> ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s
> 	00000002 000000ff 00000003 000000ff 00000002 000000f7
> 	00000003 000000f7 00000002 000000d7
> 	00000003 000000d7
> 
> We always put the global target at the end (0xd7 in this case) because
> the current code in Linux just grabs the last entry in the array to get
> the global server. So the question is, do we look for the first or the
> last entry that matches your cpuid to find the global server?
> 
> It might be worth getting something added to the architecture (PAPR) to
> clear it up. To match what current Linux does, we would want servers to
> go from including the least to the most cpus, so the global one is at
> the end.
> 

Thanks Anton,

I have modified the patch to loop through ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s
property to find the global distribution server from the last entry
that matches with boot cpuid. So this patch will work with above
situation also.

o The following patch allows any secondary CPU thread also to become
  boot cpu for POWER5. The patch is required to solve kdump boot issue
  when the kdump kernel is booted with parameter "maxcpus=1". XICS init
  code tries to match the current boot cpu id with "reg" property in
  each CPU node in the device tree. But CPU node is created only for
  primary thread CPU ids and "reg" property only reflects primary CPU
  ids. So when a kernel is booted on a secondary cpu thread above
  condition will never meet and the default distribution server is left
  as zero. This leads to route the interrupts to CPU 0, but which is not
  online at this time.

o The patch uses ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s to check for both primary
  and secondary CPU ids. Accordingly default distribution server value
  is initialized from "ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s" property.

Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan at in.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.19-rc5/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc5.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc5/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
@@ -656,13 +656,38 @@ static void __init xics_setup_8259_casca
 	set_irq_chained_handler(cascade, pseries_8259_cascade);
 }
 
+static struct device_node *cpuid_to_of_node(int cpu)
+{
+	struct device_node *np;
+	u32 hcpuid = get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu);
+
+	for_each_node_by_type(np, "cpu") {
+		int i, len;
+		const u32 *intserv;
+
+		intserv = get_property(np, "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s", &len);
+
+		if (!intserv)
+			intserv = get_property(np, "reg", &len);
+
+		i = len / sizeof(u32);
+
+		while (i--)
+			if (intserv[i] == hcpuid)
+				return np;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 void __init xics_init_IRQ(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, j;
 	struct device_node *np;
 	u32 ilen, indx = 0;
-	const u32 *ireg;
+	const u32 *ireg, *isize;
 	int found = 0;
+	u32 hcpuid;
 
 	ppc64_boot_msg(0x20, "XICS Init");
 
@@ -683,26 +708,31 @@ void __init xics_init_IRQ(void)
 	xics_init_host();
 
 	/* Find the server numbers for the boot cpu. */
-	for (np = of_find_node_by_type(NULL, "cpu");
-	     np;
-	     np = of_find_node_by_type(np, "cpu")) {
-		ireg = get_property(np, "reg", &ilen);
-		if (ireg && ireg[0] == get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid)) {
-			ireg = get_property(np,
-					"ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s", &ilen);
-			i = ilen / sizeof(int);
-			if (ireg && i > 0) {
-				default_server = ireg[0];
-				/* take last element */
-				default_distrib_server = ireg[i-1];
-			}
-			ireg = get_property(np,
+	np = cpuid_to_of_node(boot_cpuid);
+	BUG_ON(!np);
+	ireg = get_property(np, "ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s", &ilen);
+	if (!ireg)
+		goto skip_gserver_check;
+	i = ilen / sizeof(int);
+	hcpuid = get_hard_smp_processor_id(boot_cpuid);
+
+	/* Global interrupt distribution server is specified in the last
+	 * entry of "ibm,ppc-interrupt-gserver#s" property. Get the last
+	 * entry fom this property for current boot cpu id and use it as
+	 * default distribution server
+	 */
+	for (j = 0; j < i; j += 2) {
+		if (ireg[j] == hcpuid) {
+			default_server = hcpuid;
+			default_distrib_server = ireg[j+1];
+
+			isize = get_property(np,
 					"ibm,interrupt-server#-size", NULL);
-			if (ireg)
-				interrupt_server_size = *ireg;
-			break;
+			if (isize)
+				interrupt_server_size = *isize;
 		}
 	}
+skip_gserver_check:
 	of_node_put(np);
 
 	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR))



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