linux/arch
Shreyas B. Prabhu b32aadc1a8 powerpc/powernv: Fix race in updating core_idle_state
core_idle_state is maintained for each core. It uses 0-7 bits to track
whether a thread in the core has entered fastsleep or winkle. 8th bit is
used as a lock bit.
The lock bit is set in these 2 scenarios-
 - The thread is first in subcore to wakeup from sleep/winkle.
 - If its the last thread in the core about to enter sleep/winkle

While the lock bit is set, if any other thread in the core wakes up, it
loops until the lock bit is cleared before proceeding in the wakeup
path. This helps prevent race conditions w.r.t fastsleep workaround and
prevents threads from switching to process context before core/subcore
resources are restored.

But, in the path to sleep/winkle entry, we currently don't check for
lock-bit. This exposes us to following race when running with subcore
on-

First thread in the subcorea		Another thread in the same
waking up		   		core entering sleep/winkle

lwarx   r15,0,r14
ori     r15,r15,PNV_CORE_IDLE_LOCK_BIT
stwcx.  r15,0,r14
[Code to restore subcore state]

						lwarx   r15,0,r14
						[clear thread bit]
						stwcx.  r15,0,r14

andi.   r15,r15,PNV_CORE_IDLE_THREAD_BITS
stw     r15,0(r14)

Here, after the thread entering sleep clears its thread bit in
core_idle_state, the value is overwritten by the thread waking up.
In such cases when the core enters fastsleep, code mistakes an idle
thread as running. Because of this, the first thread waking up from
fastsleep which is supposed to resync timebase skips it. So we can
end up having a core with stale timebase value.

This patch fixes the above race by looping on the lock bit even while
entering the idle states.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 7b54e9f213f76 'powernv/powerpc: Add winkle support for offline cpus'
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-07-07 10:16:52 +10:00
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alpha TTY/Serial driver patches for 4.2-rc1 2015-06-26 15:53:22 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
arm - hwspinlock core DT support from Suman Anna 2015-07-03 14:52:25 -07:00
arm64 Various arm64 fixes: 2015-07-03 12:28:30 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
cris Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
frv Fix up implicit <module.h> users that will break later. 2015-07-02 10:25:22 -07:00
h8300 h8300: Always build dtb 2015-06-23 13:36:00 +09:00
hexagon Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
ia64 remove some boot noise from a now-invalid check that pages are reserved 2015-07-02 14:46:15 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-07-01 15:19:35 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
mips Devicetree changes for v4.2 2015-07-01 19:40:18 -07:00
mn10300 Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.2 2015-07-03 12:22:49 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
parisc Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
powerpc powerpc/powernv: Fix race in updating core_idle_state 2015-07-07 10:16:52 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
score Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-06-25 15:22:36 -07:00
sh Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-06-26 09:52:05 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
um Minor merge needed, due to function move. 2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
unicore32 arch/unicore32/kernel/fpu-ucf64.c: remove unnecessary KERN_ERR 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -07:00
x86 platform-drivers-x86 for 4.2-2 2015-07-05 10:54:09 -07:00
xtensa Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules. 2015-07-02 10:30:48 -07:00
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