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powerpc/time: Handle wrapping of decrementer
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:07:17 +0000 (20:07 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:09:58 +0000 (14:09 +1100)
commit24bcff35595f12771710c24cb38768159fb03309
tree37b53a4a591c3e20676809a6f4f6c59ff693f15a
parent553ff3bd102159afa3b326ca269173aa80dfe107
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>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/time.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c