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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu@amd.com>,
"Luigi Genoni" <luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration.
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:05:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070202170500.57b6c3a3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1veik3woc.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:35:31 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> When making the interrupt vectors per cpu I failed to handle a case
> during irq migration. If the same interrupt comes in while we are
> servicing the irq but before we migrate it the pending bit in the
> local apic IRR register will be set for that irq.
>
> After migrating the irq to another cpu and or vector the data
> structures will no longer be setup to handle this pending irq. Then as
> soon as we return from servicing the irq we just migrated we will get
> a nasty: "No irq handler for vector" message.
>
> Since we do not disable irqs for edge triggered interrupts except
> in the smallest possible window during migration I cannot avoid
> migrating an irq in the unlikely event that it becomes pending.
> This is because by the time the irq could no longer become pending
> I have already updated all of my data structures.
>
> Therefore this patch introduces an intermediate state that
> exists soley on the cpu where we are handling the irq during
> migration. The irq number is changed to negative in the
> vector_irq data structure.
>
> Once the migration operation is complete we know we will receive
> no more interrupts on this vector so the irq pending state for
> this irq will no longer be updated. If the irq is not pending and
> we are in the intermediate state we immediately free the vector,
> otherwise in we free the vector in do_IRQ when the pending irq
> arrives.
So is this a for-2.6.20 thing? The bug was present in 2.6.19, so
I assume it doesn't affect many people?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-03 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200701221116.13154.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-01-22 17:14 ` System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19 Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200701231051.32945.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-01-23 12:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701232052330.32111@baldios.it.pirelli.com>
2007-01-31 8:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200701311549.22512.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-02-01 5:56 ` [PATCH] x86_64: Survive having no irq mapping for a vector Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-01 5:59 ` System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19 Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-01 7:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200702021848.55921.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-02-02 18:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200702021905.39922.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-02-02 18:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 0:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64 irq: Simplfy __assign_irq_vector Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 0:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 1:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-03 1:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 2:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-03 7:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-03 7:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 14:31 ` l.genoni
2007-02-03 10:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-03 10:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 10:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-06 7:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-06 8:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <200702061012.25910.luigi.genoni@pirelli.com>
2007-02-06 22:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-06 22:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-02-07 2:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 11:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-08 20:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-09 6:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-10 23:52 ` What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints? Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-11 5:57 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2007-02-11 10:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-11 16:16 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2007-02-11 22:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-12 1:05 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2007-02-12 4:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 10:51 ` Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:10 ` [PATCH 0/14] x86_64 irq related fixes and cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:11 ` [PATCH 01/14] x86_64 irq: Simplfy __assign_irq_vector Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:13 ` [PATCH 02/14] irq: Remove set_native_irq_info Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:15 ` [PATCH 03/14] x86_64 irq: Kill declaration of removed array, interrupt Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:16 ` [PATCH 04/14] x86_64 irq: Remove the unused vector parameter from ioapic_register_intr Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:19 ` [PATCH 05/14] x86_64 irq: Refactor setup_IO_APIC_irq Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:20 ` [PATCH 06/14] x86_64 irq: Simplfiy the set_affinity logic Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:23 ` [PATCH 07/14] x86_64 irq: In __DO_ACTION perform the FINAL action for every entry Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:26 ` [PATCH 08/14] x86_64 irq: Use NR_IRQS not NR_IRQ_VECTORS Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:32 ` [PATCH 09/14] x86_64 irq: Begin consolidating per_irq data in structures Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:35 ` [PATCH 10/14] x86_64 irq: Simplify assign_irq_vector's arguments Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:36 ` [PATCH 11/14] x86_64 irq: Remove unnecessary irq 0 setup Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:38 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86_64 irq: Add constants for the reserved IRQ vectors Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:40 ` [PATCH 13/14] x86_64 irq: Safely cleanup an irq after moving it Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-25 11:53 ` Mika Penttilä
2007-02-25 12:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 11:46 ` [PATCH 14/14] genirq: Mask irqs when migrating them Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 12:01 ` [PATCH] x86_64 irq: Document what works and why on ioapics Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-24 2:06 ` [PATCH 14/14] genirq: Mask irqs when migrating them Siddha, Suresh B
2007-02-27 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-27 20:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-25 10:43 ` [PATCH 12/14] x86_64 irq: Add constants for the reserved IRQ vectors Pavel Machek
2007-02-25 11:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-25 19:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-25 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-25 21:13 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-23 16:48 ` Conclusions from my investigation about ioapic programming Jeff V. Merkey
2007-02-23 18:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-23 17:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-02-24 4:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-24 5:44 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2007-02-23 17:48 ` Jeff V. Merkey
[not found] ` <32209efe0702111212j77f5011xe2430cb13c13686@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-11 21:36 ` What are the real ioapic rte programming constraints? Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-03 9:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64 irq: Simplfy __assign_irq_vector Andi Kleen
2007-02-03 0:40 ` System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19 Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-05 19:29 [PATCH 2/2] x86_64 irq: Handle irqs pending in IRR during irq migration Lu, Yinghai
2007-02-05 19:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-05 20:11 Lu, Yinghai
2007-02-05 20:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-05 20:54 Lu, Yinghai
2007-02-05 23:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-02-05 23:33 Lu, Yinghai
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