linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] delaying interrupts in mips [ 2.6.32]

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Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:28:18 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Sadasivan Shaiju <sshaiju@...sta.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	<david.daney@...ium.com>, <shaiju_sada@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delaying interrupts in mips [ 2.6.32]

On 08/11/2014 03:13 PM, Sadasivan Shaiju wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I  work for Montavista (Cavium Inc) as  a  Technical  Lead .  I want to
> push some  of the kernel  patches to  rt community (2.6.32 kernel 2.6.33
> rt patch)  , so  that  It  will  go  to  the  main line These patches  are
> reviewed  and approved  by  our system Architect.  I request  you to
> include  in the main line .

It is already in the "main line":

commit 1bcfecc028686ea32e49b0f4f6e8a665917cb49a
Author: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@...driver.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 19 09:13:53 2012 +0200

     MIPS: Octeon: delay enable irq to ->smp_finish()

     To prepare for smoothing set_cpu_[active|online]() mess up

     Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
     Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>
     Cc: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
     Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
     Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3845/
     Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

Why are you sending it again?

David Daney



   These  issues  were  reported  by our
> customer CISCO .
>
> Problem Description:
> When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled the following stack trace occurs.
>
> [ 170.814470] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000]
> code: sirq-timer/4/62
> [ 170.814482] caller is hrtimer_run_pending+0x10/0x20
> [ 170.814488] Call Trace:
> [ 170.814496] [<ffffffff8010d844>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
> [ 170.814507] [<ffffffff803c2598>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe0/0xf0
> [ 170.814517] [<ffffffff80254158>] hrtimer_run_pending+0x10/0x20
> [ 170.814528] [<ffffffff80242400>] run_timer_softirq+0x60/0x348
> [ 170.814539] [<ffffffff8023ae80>] run_ksoftirqd+0x1c8/0x348
> [ 170.814550] [<ffffffff802503f8>] kthread+0x88/0x90
> [ 170.814561] [<ffffffff80206c80>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18
>
> Root Cause:
> Interrupt was occurring before the processor was completely up, and the
> softirq
> threads were unable to schedule on the processor and then ran on the wrong
> CPU.
>
> How Solved:
> Enabling of interrupt has been delayed till smp_finish so that
> kthread_bind
> can safely bind threads to any possible CPU.
>
> I request you  to merge  the above patch  to the  main line .  If  any
> questions please contact me atsshaiju@...sta.com  (shaiju_sada@...oo.com)
>
> Regards,
> Shaiju.
>
>
> 0001-Interrupt-delaying-enabling-of-interrupt.patch
>
>
>  From 58512475cba93003c23f2b380b573e64eebcabd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sadasivan Shaiju<sshaiju@...sta.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:25:50 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Interrupt : delaying enabling of interrupt
>
> Source: MontaVista Software, LLC
> MR: 47157
> Type: Defect Fix
> Disposition: Local
> ChangeID: 48c837329556b161f3111e6fded1c9857fa3a149
> Description:
>
> This patch is to delay the enabling of interrupt till
> smp_finish . So that kthread_bind can safely bind
> threads to any possible cpu. Without this change
> interrupt should occur beofre  the  processor was
> completely up, and  the softirq threads were unable
> to schedule on the processor and  then  ran on the
> wrong CPU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sadasivan Shaiju<sshaiju@...sta.com>
> ---
>   arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> index ff21542..c7de7ac 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> @@ -308,7 +308,6 @@ static void octeon_init_secondary(void)
>   	octeon_init_cvmcount();
>
>   	octeon_irq_setup_secondary();
> -	raw_local_irq_enable();
>   }
>
>   /**
> @@ -365,6 +364,8 @@ static void octeon_smp_finish(void)
>
>   	/* to generate the first CPU timer interrupt */
>   	write_c0_compare(read_c0_count() + mips_hpt_frequency / HZ);
> +	/* enable local interrupts */
> +	raw_local_irq_enable();
>   }
>
>   /**
> -- 1.7.0.1

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