I found why my machine sometimes crashes during boot with the
vector domain patch applied. The problem is a spurious interrupt
that causes a wild pointer reference, and thus a crash.
The problem occurs because unused entries in the percpu vector_irq
array are filled with VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED (-1). When a
spurious interrupt occurs ia64_handle_irq() calls:
generic_handle_irq(local_vector_to_irq(vector))
and the local_vector_to_irq(vector) part return -1, which is all bad.
If we initialize the unused entried to IA64_SPURIOUS_INT_VECTOR
instead, then we get the orginal behaviour: a message is printed and
the vector/irq is disabled.
As a bonus we can delete the VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED define
altogether (which is all too easy to confuse with IRQ_VECTOR_UNASSIGNED).
So I applied this patch onto the end of your sequence (but you should
merge it into patch8/12).
-Tony
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
index 91abd1b..ea19ccd 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
#define IRQ_DEBUG 0
#define IRQ_VECTOR_UNASSIGNED (0)
-#define VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED (-1)
#define IRQ_UNUSED (0)
#define IRQ_USED (1)
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ struct irq_cfg irq_cfg[NR_IRQS] __read_mostly = {
};
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int[IA64_NUM_VECTORS], vector_irq) = {
- [0 ... IA64_NUM_VECTORS - 1] = VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED
+ [0 ... IA64_NUM_VECTORS - 1] = IA64_SPURIOUS_INT_VECTOR
};
static cpumask_t vector_table[IA64_MAX_DEVICE_VECTORS] = {
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ static void __clear_irq_vector(int irq)
domain = irq_cfg[irq].domain;
cpus_and(mask, irq_cfg[irq].domain, cpu_online_map);
for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask)
- per_cpu(vector_irq, cpu)[vector] = VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED;
+ per_cpu(vector_irq, cpu)[vector] = IA64_SPURIOUS_INT_VECTOR;
irq_cfg[irq].vector = IRQ_VECTOR_UNASSIGNED;
irq_cfg[irq].domain = CPU_MASK_NONE;
irq_status[irq] = IRQ_UNUSED;
@@ -238,7 +237,7 @@ void __setup_vector_irq(int cpu)
/* Clear vector_irq */
for (vector = 0; vector < IA64_NUM_VECTORS; ++vector)
- per_cpu(vector_irq, cpu)[vector] = VECTOR_IRQ_UNASSIGNED;
+ per_cpu(vector_irq, cpu)[vector] = IA64_SPURIOUS_INT_VECTOR;
/* Mark the inuse vectors */
for (irq = 0; irq < NR_IRQS; ++irq) {
if (!cpu_isset(cpu, irq_cfg[irq].domain))
-
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