* john cooper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ingo,
> Attached is a patch for 51-28 which brings PPC up to date for
> 2.6.12 PREEMPT_RT. My goal was to get a more recent vintage of this
> work building and minimally booting for PPC. Yet this has been stable
> even under our internal stress tests. We now have this running on
> 8560 and 8260 PPC targets with a few others in the pipe.
great. I've applied most of your patch and have released the -51-37
kernel. A couple of generic bits i did not apply.
> In the process of producing the patch I stumbled across a change
> introduced in 51-15 where in the case of PREEMPT_RT it appears
> hw_irq_controller.end() is never being called at the end of
> do_hardirq(). This appears to be an oversight in the code and the
> existing PPC openpic code does register a end() handler which it
> expects to be called in order to terminate the interrupt. Otherwise
> interrupts at the current level are effectively disabled.
this change was fully intentional. Basically on PREEMPT_HARDIRQS, the
'redirected' interrupt path is special already. Right now when an IRQ is
redirected, we do the following: ->ack() in the hardirq handler and no
->end() (so we keep the interrupt masked), then the handling of the IRQ
sometime later in its interrupt thread, and an ->enable(). It's a bit
unclean, but this results in minimal per-arch changes to the IRQ code.
Nevertheless i have applied your change, but we need to get rid of this.
> There is also what I suspect to be some "leaking" of the
> __RAW_LOCAL_ILLEGAL_MASK bit out of the local_irq*() API primitives as
> the *flags argument. This may subsequently be used by non-local_irq*()
> primitives and wind up unintentionally setting the
> __RAW_LOCAL_ILLEGAL_MASK bit in the machine control register with
> unpredictable results.
i have not applied the generic bits for this, because it should be
solved within the raw_local_irq*() code: check for the illegal bit if
IRQ debugging is turned on. We very much want to know about mismatched
IRQ flags.
> Lastly there is a problem I've yet to isolate in
> kernel/printk.c:release_console_sem() where the expansion of
> spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock) generating a call to
> __raw_local_irq_enable() will lockup console output on PPC. In the
> interim this has been reverted to a spin_unlock() call for the case of
> PREEMPT_RT && PPC.
i have not applied this one either, please investigate it further, it
ought to work.
Also, i have not applied the timer.c change yet either: what kind of bug
are you trying to fix there?
Ingo
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