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From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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        Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 0/3] arm64/irqentry: remove duplicate housekeeping of rcu
Date:   Tue,  5 Oct 2021 18:17:25 +0100
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 22:44:03 +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> When an IRQ is taken, some accounting needs to be performed to enter and
> exit IRQ context around the IRQ handler. Historically arch code would
> leave this to the irqchip or core IRQ code, but these days we want this
> to happen in exception entry code, and architectures such as arm64 do
> this.
> 
> Currently handle_domain_irq() performs this entry/exit accounting, and
> if used on an architecture where the entry code also does this, the
> entry/exit accounting will be performed twice per IRQ. This is
> problematic as core RCU code such as rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle()
> depends on this happening once per IRQ, and will not detect quescent
> periods correctly, leading to stall warnings.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!

[1/3] kernel/irq: make irq_{enter,exit}() in handle_domain_irq() arch optional
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/db795cf55b21
[2/3] arm64: entry: refactor EL1 interrupt entry logic
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/ad0d5cfb9535
[3/3] arm64: entry: avoid double-accounting IRQ RCU entry
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/12074b059fdc

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Catalin