linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: IRQ priority masking and Pseudo-NMI fixes

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:07:04 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, marc.zyngier@....com, yuzenghui@...wei.com,
        wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com, james.morse@....com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, mark.rutland@....com, liwei391@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm64: IRQ priority masking and Pseudo-NMI fixes

Hi again, Julien,

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 05:51:55PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:00:02PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> > [Changing the title to make it reflex more the status of the series.]
> > 
> > Version one[1] of this series attempted to fix the issue reported by
> > Zenghui[2] when using the function_graph tracer with IRQ priority
> > masking.
> > 
> > Since then, I realized that priority masking and the use of Pseudo-NMIs
> > was more broken than I thought.
> 
> Do you plan to respin this in light of Marc's comments?

For now, I marked this as depending on BROKEN in mainline, but please can
you look at respinning these fixes so that we can get things fixed properly
for 5.3?

Thanks,

Will