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"paca->soft_enabled" is used as a flag to mask some of interrupts. Currently supported flags values and their details: soft_enabled MSR[EE] 0 0 Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked) 1 1 Enabled "paca->soft_enabled" is initialized to 1 to make the interripts as enabled. arch_local_irq_disable() will toggle the value when interrupts needs to disbled. At this point, the interrupts are not actually disabled, instead, interrupt vector has code to check for the flag and mask it when it occurs. By "mask it", it update interrupt paca->irq_happened and return. arch_local_irq_restore() is called to re-enable interrupts, which checks and replays interrupts if any occured. Now, as mentioned, current logic doesnot mask "performance monitoring interrupts" and PMIs are implemented as NMI. But this patchset depends on local_irq_* for a successful local_* update. Meaning, mask all possible interrupts during local_* update and replay them after the update. So the idea here is to reserve the "paca->soft_enabled" logic. New values and details: soft_enabled MSR[EE] 1 0 Disabled (PMI and HMI not masked) 0 1 Enabled Reason for the this change is to create foundation for a third mask value "0x2" for "soft_enabled" to add support to mask PMIs. When ->soft_enabled is set to a value "3", PMI interrupts are mask and when set to a value of "1", PMI are not mask. With this patch also extends soft_enabled as interrupt disable mask. Current flags are renamed from IRQ_[EN?DIS}ABLED to IRQS_ENABLED and IRQS_DISABLED. Patch also fixes the ptrace call to force the user to see the softe value to be alway 1. Reason being, even though userspace has no business knowing about softe, it is part of pt_regs. Like-wise in signal context. Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.