Regression in RCU subsystem in latest mainline kernel

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 12:02 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 17:06 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I was pretty much able to reproduce this on my PA Semi PPC box. Funny
> > thing is, when I type on the console, it makes progress. Anyway, it
> > seems that powerpc has an issue with irq_work(). I'll try to get some
> > time either tonight or next week to figure it out.
> 
> Does this help ?

It did for me. Rojhalat, did this fix your issue too?

-- Steve

> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> index 5cbcf4d..ea185e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ notrace unsigned int __check_irq_replay(void)
>  	 * in case we also had a rollover while hard disabled
>  	 */
>  	local_paca->irq_happened &= ~PACA_IRQ_DEC;
> -	if (decrementer_check_overflow())
> +	if ((happened & PACA_IRQ_DEC) || decrementer_check_overflow())
>  		return 0x900;
>  
>  	/* Finally check if an external interrupt happened */
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>