Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:07 +0100 | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | [patch 07/13] powerpc: work around a cell interrupt HW bug |
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Apparently we have found a bug in the CPU that causes external interrupts to sometimes get disabled indefinitely. This adds a workaround for the problem.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Index: linux-2.6.15.4/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.15.4.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c +++ linux-2.6.15.4/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c @@ -63,7 +63,24 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct iic, iic); void iic_local_enable(void) { - out_be64(&__get_cpu_var(iic).regs->prio, 0xff); + struct iic *iic = &__get_cpu_var(iic); + u64 tmp; + + /* + * There seems to be a bug that is present in DD2.x CPUs + * and still only partially fixed in DD3.1. + * This bug causes a value written to the priority register + * not to make it there, resulting in a system hang unless we + * write it again. + * Masking with 0xf0 is done because the Cell BE does not + * implement the lower four bits of the interrupt priority, + * they always read back as zeroes, although future CPUs + * might implement different bits. + */ + do { + out_be64(&iic->regs->prio, 0xff); + tmp = in_be64(&iic->regs->prio); + } while ((tmp & 0xf0) != 0xf0); } void iic_local_disable(void) --
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