On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:56:26AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > If we accidentally unmask IRQs before we've registered a root IRQ > handler, handle_arch_irq will be NULL, and the IRQ exception handler > will branch to a bogus address. > > To make this easier to debug, this patch initialises handle_arch_irq to > a default handler which will panic(), making such problems easier to > debug. When we add support for FIQ handlers, we can follow the same > approach. > > When we add support for a root FIQ handler, it's possible to have root > IRQ handler without an root FIQ handler, and in theory the inverse is > also possible. To permit this, and to keep the IRQ/FIQ registration > logic similar, this patch removes the panic in the absence of a root IRQ > controller. Instead, set_handle_irq() logs when a handler is registered, > which is sufficient for debug purposes. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Hector Martin <[email protected]> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: James Morse <[email protected]> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > --- > arch/arm64/kernel/irq.c | 12 ++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Will

