[PATCH v3 0/3] Support Soft NMI
Balbir Singh
bsingharora at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 15:55:35 AEDT 2017
This patch is based on suggestions from paulus and benh.
The bugs are all mine. The idea was to implement soft
NMI(s) by keeping interrupts enabled in the soft-disabled
state, but to use the interrupt controller to gate posting
of new interrupts to the processor. This is still work in
progress and a preliminary RFC that needs testing.
Nick posted a more comprehensive version for soft NMI at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/704605/, but it does
not work when interrupts are disabled
TODOs:
1. Integrate with
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/706983/
2. Remove the duplicate XIRR between KVM and the
paca's irq field. Will do this in a follow on
series, since that requires extensive testing
Changelog v3:
- Try to address kbuild failure
- Initialize paca->irq to a sane value
Changelog v2:
- Rename functions as suggested by Nick
- Move irq in paca down for better alignment
- Break the patches up further into interrupt disabling
and soft nmi patches
- Support only PPC_XICS for now
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Balbir Singh (3):
Merge IPI and DEFAULT priorities
Keep interrupts enabled even on soft disable
Enable soft nmi handler
arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h | 8 ++----
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 33 ++++++++++++++++------
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 1 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++-
6 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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2.9.3
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