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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2011-11-23 20:07:17 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-11-25 14:09:58 +1100
commit37fb9a0231ee43d42d069863bdfd567fca2b61af (patch)
tree37b53a4a591c3e20676809a6f4f6c59ff693f15a /arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
parentcaca6a03d365883564885f2c1da3e88dcf65d139 (diff)
downloadlinux-37fb9a0231ee43d42d069863bdfd567fca2b61af.tar.bz2
powerpc/time: Handle wrapping of decrementer
When re-enabling interrupts we have code to handle edge sensitive decrementers by resetting the decrementer to 1 whenever it is negative. If interrupts were disabled long enough that the decrementer wrapped to positive we do nothing. This means interrupts can be delayed for a long time until it finally goes negative again. While we hope interrupts are never be disabled long enough for the decrementer to go positive, we have a very good test team that can drive any kernel into the ground. The softlockup data we get back from these fails could be seconds in the future, completely missing the cause of the lockup. We already keep track of the timebase of the next event so use that to work out if we should trigger a decrementer exception. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c15
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 5c3c46948d94..745c1e7c10fd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -164,16 +164,13 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
*/
local_paca->hard_enabled = en;
-#ifndef CONFIG_BOOKE
- /* On server, re-trigger the decrementer if it went negative since
- * some processors only trigger on edge transitions of the sign bit.
- *
- * BookE has a level sensitive decrementer (latches in TSR) so we
- * don't need that
+ /*
+ * Trigger the decrementer if we have a pending event. Some processors
+ * only trigger on edge transitions of the sign bit. We might also
+ * have disabled interrupts long enough that the decrementer wrapped
+ * to positive.
*/
- if ((int)mfspr(SPRN_DEC) < 0)
- mtspr(SPRN_DEC, 1);
-#endif /* CONFIG_BOOKE */
+ decrementer_check_overflow();
/*
* Force the delivery of pending soft-disabled interrupts on PS3.