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Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip: mips-gic: Avoid spuriously handling masked
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To:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
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From:   Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:44:41 +0000
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Hi Marc,

On 07/02/18 09:41, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 05/02/18 16:45, Matt Redfearn wrote:
>> Commit 7778c4b27cbe ("irqchip: mips-gic: Use pcpu_masks to avoid reading
>> GIC_SH_MASK*") removed the read of the hardware mask register when
>> handling shared interrupts, instead using the driver's shadow pcpu_masks
>> entry as the effective mask. Unfortunately this did not take account of
>> the write to pcpu_masks during gic_shared_irq_domain_map, which
>> effectively unmasks the interrupt early. If an interrupt is asserted,
>> gic_handle_shared_int decodes and processes the interrupt even though it
>> has not yet been unmasked via gic_unmask_irq, which also sets the
>> appropriate bit in pcpu_masks.
>>
>> On the MIPS Boston board, when a console command line of
>> "console=ttyS0,115200n8r" is passed, the modem status IRQ is enabled in
>> the UART, which is immediately raised to the GIC. The interrupt has been
>> mapped, but no handler has yet been registered, nor is it expected to be
>> unmasked. However, the write to pcpu_masks in gic_shared_irq_domain_map
>> has effectively unmasked it, resulting in endless reports of:
>>
>> [    5.058454] irq 13, desc: ffffffff80a7ad80, depth: 1, count: 0, unhandled: 0
>> [    5.062057] ->handle_irq():  ffffffff801b1838,
>> [    5.062175] handle_bad_irq+0x0/0x2c0
>>
>> Where IRQ 13 is the UART interrupt.
>>
>> To fix this, just remove the write to pcpu_masks in
>> gic_shared_irq_domain_map. The existing write in gic_unmask_irq is the
>> correct place for what is now the effective unmasking.
>>
>> Fixes: 7778c4b27cbe ("irqchip: mips-gic: Use pcpu_masks to avoid reading GIC_SH_MASK*")
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>   drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c | 2 --
>>   1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
>> index b2cfc6d66d74..2c3684ba46e5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-gic.c
>> @@ -429,8 +429,6 @@ static int gic_shared_irq_domain_map(struct irq_domain *d, unsigned int virq,
>>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&gic_lock, flags);
>>   	write_gic_map_pin(intr, GIC_MAP_PIN_MAP_TO_PIN | shared_cpu_pin);
>>   	write_gic_map_vp(intr, BIT(mips_cm_vp_id(cpu)));
>> -	gic_clear_pcpu_masks(intr);
>> -	set_bit(intr, per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_masks, cpu));
>>   	irq_data_update_effective_affinity(data, cpumask_of(cpu));
>>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gic_lock, flags);
>>   
>>
> 
> Does this need to be Cc to stable (since it fixes something that was
> merged in 4.14)?

Sorry, missed stable off the CC list. Yes, it does indeed need to be 
backported. Should I resubmit?

Thanks,
Matt

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	M.
>