From 631337f8274a637fe7d9ad58042cd93155267269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Piggin Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:39:28 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix decrementer storm The decrementer exception can fail to be cleared when the interrupt returns in the case where the decrementer wraps with the next timer still beyond decrementer_max. This results in a decrementer interrupt storm. This is triggerable with small decrementer system with hard and soft watchdogs disabled. Fix this by always programming the decrementer if there was no timer. Fixes: 3bee53f48b43 ("powerpc/64s/interrupt: Don't enable MSR[EE] in irq handlers unless perf is in use") Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124143930.3923442-1-npiggin@gmail.com --- arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 62361cc7281cd..cd0b8b71ecddc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c @@ -649,8 +649,9 @@ DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER_ASYNC(timer_interrupt) __this_cpu_inc(irq_stat.timer_irqs_event); } else { now = *next_tb - now; - if (now <= decrementer_max) - set_dec_or_work(now); + if (now > decrementer_max) + now = decrementer_max; + set_dec_or_work(now); __this_cpu_inc(irq_stat.timer_irqs_others); } -- 2.39.5