[PATCH] powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix lost interrupts when returning to soft-masked context
Guenter Roeck
linux at roeck-us.net
Sat Oct 15 04:05:05 AEDT 2022
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 04:44:18PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> It's possible for an interrupt returning to an irqs-disabled context to
> lose a pending soft-masked irq because it branches to part of the exit
> code for irqs-enabled contexts, which is meant to clear only the
> PACA_IRQS_HARD_DIS flag from PACAIRQHAPPENED by zeroing the byte. This
> just looks like a simple thinko from a recent commit (if there was no
> hard mask pending, there would be no reason to clear it anyway).
>
> This also adds comment to the code that actually does need to clear the
> flag.
>
> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
> Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> Fixes: e485f6c751e0a ("powerpc/64/interrupt: Fix return to masked context after hard-mask irq becomes pending")
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
I thought I sent this before, but I am not sure if it got lost
since I don't see it in the powerpc patchwork.
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Guenter
> ---
> I credit Sachin as well because he likely ran into it here,
>
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-March/240971.html
>
> It was much more difficult to hit on his setup so when I asked him to
> re-test with a later kernel and it didn't reproduce, I thought it
> could have been unrelated. I stared at the patch for ages back then and
> didn't see the bug. I should have known better :(
>
> I'm pretty confident this is the hang problem. Reproducer is intermittent
> for me, but I did catch it losing pending irqs here using debug code, so
> this certainly is _a_ bug that can explain the symptoms.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
> index 904a5608cbe3..978a173eb339 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt_64.S
> @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(interrupt_return_\srr\()_kernel)
> beq .Lfast_kernel_interrupt_return_\srr\() // EE already disabled
> lbz r11,PACAIRQHAPPENED(r13)
> andi. r10,r11,PACA_IRQ_MUST_HARD_MASK
> - beq 1f // No HARD_MASK pending
> + beq .Lfast_kernel_interrupt_return_\srr\() // No HARD_MASK pending
>
> /* Must clear MSR_EE from _MSR */
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
> @@ -555,12 +555,23 @@ _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(interrupt_return_\srr\()_kernel)
> b .Lfast_kernel_interrupt_return_\srr\()
>
> .Linterrupt_return_\srr\()_soft_enabled:
> + /*
> + * In the soft-enabled case, need to double-check that we have no
> + * pending interrupts that might have come in before we reached the
> + * restart section of code, and restart the exit so those can be
> + * handled.
> + *
> + * If there are none, it is be possible that the interrupt still
> + * has PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS set, which needs to be cleared for the
> + * interrupted context. This clear will not clobber a new pending
> + * interrupt coming in, because we're in the restart section, so
> + * such would return to the restart location.
> + */
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
> lbz r11,PACAIRQHAPPENED(r13)
> andi. r11,r11,(~PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS)@l
> bne- interrupt_return_\srr\()_kernel_restart
> #endif
> -1:
> li r11,0
> stb r11,PACAIRQHAPPENED(r13) // clear the possible HARD_DIS
>
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