Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:36:34 +0000 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PREEMPT_RT_FULL: ARM context switch needs IRQs enabled |
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:56:29PM +0000, frank.rowand@am.sony.com wrote: > 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?
What I don't like is reintroducing __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW as we try to get rid of it. Can the -rt code not be modified to call switch_mm() with interrupts enabled? The non-rt code seems to do this anyway.
BTW, I pushed to fixups to the ctxsw changes for ARM:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/intr-ctxsw
to cope with switch_mm() being called directly with interrupts enabled, in which case it won't defer the pgd switch. I think I can improve them a bit but it needs to wait until Monday (busy with Christmas shopping this weekend).
-- Catalin
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