[PATCH v2] powerpc/64: irq replay remove decrementer overflow check

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Dec 15 21:49:05 AEDT 2020


On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 11:43:36 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> This is way to catch some cases of decrementer overflow, when the
> decrementer has underflowed an odd number of times, while MSR[EE] was
> disabled.
> 
> With a typical small decrementer, a timer that fires when MSR[EE] is
> disabled will be "lost" if MSR[EE] remains disabled for between 4.3 and
> 8.6 seconds after the timer expires. In any case, the decrementer
> interrupt would be taken at 8.6 seconds and the timer would be found at
> that point.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/64: irq replay remove decrementer overflow check
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/59d512e4374b2d8a6ad341475dc94c4a4bdec7d3

cheers


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