Luck, Tony wrote:
> 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).
Hi Tony,
Thank you for your help.
After reviewing this patch, I'll test and repost vector domain patcheset
for 2.6.22.
Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> -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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