On Fri, 2015-18-12 at 06:16:17 UTC, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Commit 25642e1459ac ("powerpc/opal-irqchip: Fix double endian
> conversion") fixed an endian bug by calling opal_handle_events() in
> opal_event_unmask(). However this introduces a deadlock when an event
> is active during unmasking as opal_handle_events() calls
> generic_handle_irq() which may call opal_event_unmask() with the irq
> descriptor lock held.
>
> When generating multiple opal events in quick succession this would
> lead to the following stall warnings:
>
> EEH: Fenced PHB#0 detected, location: U78C9.001.WZS09XA-P1-C32
> INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
>
> 12-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=68f/140000000000001/0 softirq=860/861 fqs=2065
> 15-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=be5/140000000000001/0 softirq=1142/1143 fqs=2065
> (detected by 13, t=2102 jiffies, g=1325, c=1324, q=602)
> NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#18 stuck for 22s! [irqbalance:2696]
> INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> 12-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=68f/140000000000001/0 softirq=860/861 fqs=8371
> 15-...: (1 GPs behind) idle=be5/140000000000001/0 softirq=1142/1143 fqs=8371
> (detected by 20, t=8407 jiffies, g=1325, c=1324, q=1290)
>
> This patch corrects the problem by queuing the work if an event is
> active during unmasking, which is similar to the pre-endian fix
> behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/036592fbbe753d236402a0ae68
cheers
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