[PATCH] powerpc/64: replay hypervisor maintenance priority

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 13:01:21 AEST 2016


The hmi is defined to be higher priority than other maskable
interrupts, so replay it first, as a best-effort to replay according
to hardware priorities.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 3cb46a3..ad1a930 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ notrace unsigned int __check_irq_replay(void)
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Check if an hypervisor Maintenance interrupt happened.
+	 * This is a higher priority interrupt than the others, so
+	 * replay it first.
+	 */
+	local_paca->irq_happened &= ~PACA_IRQ_HMI;
+	if (happened & PACA_IRQ_HMI)
+		return 0xe60;
+
+	/*
 	 * We may have missed a decrementer interrupt. We check the
 	 * decrementer itself rather than the paca irq_happened field
 	 * in case we also had a rollover while hard disabled
@@ -189,11 +198,6 @@ notrace unsigned int __check_irq_replay(void)
 	}
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3E */
 
-	/* Check if an hypervisor Maintenance interrupt happened */
-	local_paca->irq_happened &= ~PACA_IRQ_HMI;
-	if (happened & PACA_IRQ_HMI)
-		return 0xe60;
-
 	/* There should be nothing left ! */
 	BUG_ON(local_paca->irq_happened != 0);
 
-- 
2.9.3



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