From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, anton@samba.org,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/12] powerpc: Add a Kconfig and a function to set new soft_enabled mask
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 22:48:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fbb7a10-13a2-8542-2050-d73a958167d7@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160829114129.7e68c805@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Monday 29 August 2016 07:11 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:07:27 +0530
> Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> New Kconfig is added "CONFIG_IRQ_DEBUG_SUPPORT" to add a warn_on
>> to alert the usage of soft_irq_set_mask() for disabling lower
>> bitmask interrupts.
>>
>> Have also moved the code under the CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS in
>> arch_local_irq_restore() to new Kconfig as suggested.
>>
>> Patch also adds a new soft_irq_set_mask() to update paca->soft_enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 4 ++++
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 4 ++--
>> 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index 927d2ab2ce08..878f05925340 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>> bool
>> default y
>>
>> +config IRQ_DEBUG_SUPPORT
>> + bool
>> + default n
>> +
>> config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
>> bool
>> default y
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> index 415734c07cfa..9f71559ce868 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> @@ -81,6 +81,23 @@ static inline unsigned long arch_local_irq_disable(void)
>> return flags;
>> }
>>
>> +static inline unsigned long soft_irq_set_mask(int value)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long flags, zero;
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_DEBUG_SUPPORT
>> + WARN_ON(value <= IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_LINUX);
>> +#endif
>> + asm volatile(
>> + "li %1,%3; lbz %0,%2(13); stb %1,%2(13)"
>> + : "=r" (flags), "=&r" (zero)
>> + : "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, soft_enabled)),\
>> + "i" (value)
>> + : "memory");
>> +
>> + return flags;
>> +}
> One other thing, if we have:
>
> local_irq_save(flags); // disable LINUX mask -> LINUX
> local_irq_and_pmu_save(flags); // disable PMU mask -> LINUX|PMU
> local_irq_and_pmu_restore(flags); // enable PMU mask -> LINUX
> local_irq_restore(flags); // enable LINUX mask -> NONE
>
> Then the nested code that re-enables PMUs will not replay PMU interrupt
> until the outer irq is re-enabled. I don't *think* this is a problem,
> but it probably should be commented.
>
> Which brings us to arch_local_irq_restore() (from another patch):
>
>
> @@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
>
> /* Write the new soft-enabled value */
> set_soft_enabled(en);
> - if (!en)
> + if (en == IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_LINUX)
> return;
> /*
> * From this point onward, we can take interrupts, preempt,
>
> I think this is a bit buggy for some cases of nested disables. For the
> above it is okay, but if we have:
>
> local_irq_and_pmu_save(flags);
> local_irq_and_pmu_save(flags);
> local_irq_and_pmu_restore(flags);
> local_irq_and_pmu_restore(flags);
>
>
> The first restore will restore LINUX|PMU mask, which will not be caught
> by this check.
>
> Testing instead for non-zero (any IRQ bits masked) should work. We should
> probably also add an IRQ_DEBUG_SUPPORT check to ensure LINUX bit is always
> one of the outer-most bits to be cleared (theoretically we could support
Just sent out the newer version of the patchset with most of the
comments addressed.
But I am not sure about this comment. IIUC, will something like this
will do?
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index a02c6a3bc6fa..af0c08aefbcf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
unsigned char irq_happened;
unsigned int replay;
+#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_DEBUG_SUPPORT
+ WARN_ONCE (en & (en & local_paca->soft_enabled),
+ "soft_enabled transition to Unsupported state\n");
+#endif
+
/* Write the new soft-enabled value */
set_soft_enabled(en);
Maddy
> masking other bits without masking LINUX, but let's disallow that until a
> compelling use case shows up).
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-28 18:37 [RFC PATCH v4 00/12] powerpc: "paca->soft_enabled" based local atomic operation implementation Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 01/12] powerpc: Add #defs for paca->soft_enabled flags Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 02/12] powerpc: Cleanup to use IRQ_DISABLE_MASK_* macros for paca->soft_enabled update Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 03/12] powerpc: move set_soft_enabled() Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 04/12] powerpc: Use set_soft_enabled api to update paca->soft_enabled Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 05/12] powerpc: reverse the soft_enable logic Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 06/12] powerpc: Avoid using EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1 macro in MASKABLE_* Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 07/12] powerpc: Add new _EXCEPTION_PROLOG_1 macro Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 08/12] powerpc: Introduce new mask bit for soft_enabled Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 09/12] powerpc: Add "bitmask" paramater to MASKABLE_* macros Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 10/12] powerpc: Add support to mask perf interrupts and replay Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 11/12] powerpc: Add a Kconfig and a function to set new soft_enabled mask Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-29 0:23 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-29 1:41 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-29 5:58 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-09-05 17:18 ` Madhavan Srinivasan [this message]
2016-09-05 18:01 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-09-07 12:39 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-08-28 18:37 ` [RFC PATCH v4 12/12] powerpc: rewrite local_t using soft_irq Madhavan Srinivasan
2016-08-29 1:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
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