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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PREEMPT_RT_FULL: ARM context switch needs IRQs enabled
On 12/15/11 19:20, Frank Rowand wrote:
>
> ARMv6 and later have VIPT caches and the TLBs are tagged with an ASID
> (application specific ID). The number of ASIDs is limited to 256 and
> the allocation algorithm requires IPIs when all the ASIDs have been
> used. The IPIs require interrupts enabled during context switch for
> deadlock avoidance.
>
> The RT patch mm-protect-activate-switch-mm.patch disables irqs around
> activate_mm() and switch_mm(), which are the portion of the ARMv6
> context switch that require interrupts enabled.
>
> The solution for the ARMv6 processors could be to _not_ disable irqs.
> A more conservative solution is to provide the same environment that
> the scheduler provides, that is preempt_disable(). This is more
> resilient for possible future changes to the ARM context switch code
> that is not aware of the RT patches.
>
> This patch will conflict slightly with Catalin's patch set to remove
> __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW, when that is accepted:
>
> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1111.3/01893.html
>
> When Catalin's patch set is accepted, this RT patch will need to reverse
> the change in patch 6 to arch/arm/include/asm/system.h:
>
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_ASID
> -#define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
> -#endif
>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
>
> ---
> fs/exec.c | 8 8 + 0 - 0 !
> mm/mmu_context.c | 8 8 + 0 - 0 !
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> Index: b/fs/exec.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -837,12 +837,20 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
> }
> }
> task_lock(tsk);
> +#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW

Self critique... I really, really dislike this ifdef because it will
fail silently if the includes are changed and as a result the include file that
defines __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW (arch/arm/include/asm/system.h) is not
included.

Does anyone have any brilliant ideas for an alternative approach?

-Frank



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