Le 12/09/2023 à 19:02, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
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> Le 12/09/2023 à 18:49, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:44:23AM -0400, Liam R. Howlett wrote:
>>>> So my question is why is it useful to setup interrupts that early, given
>>>> that interrupts cannot possibly happen until the boot CPU enables them?
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>>> I don't know for sure, but there are 'preallocated IRQs' which end up
>>> grouped 0-15, then I see another one added at 55 after the mpic console
>>> output. I suspect it's so that they can be added as they are discovered
>>> during early boot?
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>> Christophe argues that the interrupt stacks must be allocated early
>> on, and that this acquires a mutex.
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> Well, we can probably allocate them later than it is today.
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> In commit 547db12fd8a0 ("powerpc/32: Use vmapped stacks for interrupts")
> I already pushed the allocation at a later stage than it initialy was.
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> We can probably do it later if it helps, however it definitely needs to
> be done before enabling IRQs for obvious reasons, so it is a problem
> that alloc_vm_stack() calling __vmalloc_node() enables IRQs.
For FWIW, looks like arm32 is doing similar so the problem is likely to
happen for them too. For that both CONFIG_IRQSTACKS and
CONFIG_VMAP_STACK must be set it seems.
Christophe
