linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h, branch master

powerpc: Enable GENERIC_ENTRY feature

2026-05-20T01:27:14Z

Enable the generic IRQ entry/exit infrastructure on PowerPC by selecting GENERIC_ENTRY and integrating the architecture-specific interrupt and syscall handlers with the generic entry/exit APIs. This change replaces PowerPC’s local interrupt entry/exit handling with calls to the generic irqentry_* helpers, aligning the architecture with the common kernel entry model. The macros that define interrupt, async, and NMI handlers are updated to use irqentry_enter()/irqentry_exit() and irqentry_nmi_enter()/irqentry_nmi_exit() where applicable also convert the PowerPC syscall entry and exit paths to use the generic entry/exit framework and integrating with the common syscall handling routines. Key updates include: - The architecture now selects GENERIC_ENTRY in Kconfig. - Replace interrupt_enter/exit_prepare() with arch_interrupt_* helpers. - Integrate irqentry_enter()/exit() in standard and async interrupt paths. - Integrate irqentry_nmi_enter()/exit() in NMI handlers. - Remove redundant irq_enter()/irq_exit() calls now handled generically. - Use irqentry_exit_cond_resched() for preemption checks. - interrupt.c and syscall.c are simplified to delegate context management and user exit handling to the generic entry path. - The new pt_regs field `exit_flags` introduced earlier is now used to carry per-syscall exit state flags (e.g. _TIF_RESTOREALL). - Remove unused code. This change establishes the necessary wiring for PowerPC to use the generic IRQ entry/exit framework while maintaining existing semantics. This aligns PowerPC with the common entry code used by other architectures and reduces duplicated logic around syscall tracing, context tracking, and signal handling. The performance benchmarks from perf bench basic syscall are below: perf bench syscall usec/op (-ve is improvement) | Syscall | Base | test | change % | | ------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------- | | basic | 0.093543 | 0.093023 | -0.56 | | execve | 446.557781 | 450.107172 | +0.79 | | fork | 1142.204391 | 1156.377214 | +1.24 | | getpgid | 0.097666 | 0.092677 | -5.11 | perf bench syscall ops/sec (+ve is improvement) | Syscall | Base | New | change % | | ------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | | basic | 10690548 | 10750140 | +0.56 | | execve | 2239 | 2221 | -0.80 | | fork | 875 | 864 | -1.26 | | getpgid | 10239026 | 10790324 | +5.38 | IPI latency benchmark (-ve is improvement) | Metric | Base (ns) | New (ns) | % Change | | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | -------- | | Dry run | 583136.56 | 584136.35 | 0.17% | | Self IPI | 4167393.42 | 4149093.90 | -0.44% | | Normal IPI | 61769347.82 | 61753728.39 | -0.03% | | Broadcast IPI | 2235584825.02 | 2227521401.45 | -0.36% | | Broadcast lock | 2164964433.31 | 2125658641.76 | -1.82% | Thats very close to performance earlier with arch specific handling. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya Tested-by: Samir M Tested-by: David Gow Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427122742.210074-8-mkchauras@gmail.com

powerpc: rename arch_irq_disabled_regs

2026-05-20T01:27:13Z

Rename arch_irq_disabled_regs() to regs_irqs_disabled() to align with the naming used in the generic irqentry framework. This makes the function available for use both in the PowerPC architecture code and in the common entry/exit paths shared with other architectures. This is a preparatory change for enabling the generic irqentry framework on PowerPC. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya Tested-by: Samir M Tested-by: David Gow Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427122742.210074-2-mkchauras@gmail.com

powerpc: Replace ASSEMBLY with ASSEMBLER in non-uapi headers

2025-09-01T07:53:29Z

While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically when compiling assembler code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel. This is bad since macros starting with two underscores are names that are reserved by the C language. It can also be very confusing for the developers when switching between userspace and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with uapi headers that rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize now on the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers. This is almost a completely mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i" statement), apart from tweaking two comments manually in arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h and arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h (which did not have proper underscores at the end) and fixing a checkpatch error about spaces in arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu_csa.h. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250801082007.32904-3-thuth@redhat.com

treewide: context_tracking: Rename CONTEXT_* into CT_STATE_*

2024-07-29T02:03:10Z

Context tracking state related symbols currently use a mix of the CONTEXT_ (e.g. CONTEXT_KERNEL) and CT_SATE_ (e.g. CT_STATE_MASK) prefixes. Clean up the naming and make the ctx_state enum use the CT_STATE_ prefix. Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay

powerpc: Avoid nmi_enter/nmi_exit in real mode interrupt.

2024-04-15T02:55:48Z

nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() touches per cpu variables which can lead to kernel crash when invoked during real mode interrupt handling (e.g. early HMI/MCE interrupt handler) if percpu allocation comes from vmalloc area. Early HMI/MCE handlers are called through DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER_NMI() wrapper which invokes nmi_enter/nmi_exit calls. We don't see any issue when percpu allocation is from the embedded first chunk. However with CONFIG_NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK enabled there are chances where percpu allocation can come from the vmalloc area. With kernel command line "percpu_alloc=page" we can force percpu allocation to come from vmalloc area and can see kernel crash in machine_check_early: [ 1.215714] NIP [c000000000e49eb4] rcu_nmi_enter+0x24/0x110 [ 1.215717] LR [c0000000000461a0] machine_check_early+0xf0/0x2c0 [ 1.215719] --- interrupt: 200 [ 1.215720] [c000000fffd73180] [0000000000000000] 0x0 (unreliable) [ 1.215722] [c000000fffd731b0] [0000000000000000] 0x0 [ 1.215724] [c000000fffd73210] [c000000000008364] machine_check_early_common+0x134/0x1f8 Fix this by avoiding use of nmi_enter()/nmi_exit() in real mode if percpu first chunk is not embedded. Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Shirisha Ganta Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20240410043006.81577-1-mahesh@linux.ibm.com

powerpc: Use user_mode() macro when possible

2024-02-22T10:55:33Z

There is a nice macro to check user mode. Use it instead of open coding anding with MSR_PR to increase readability and avoid having to comment what that anding is for. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/fbf74887dcf1f1ba9e1680fc3247cbb581b00662.1708078228.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

powerpc: Consolidate 32-bit and 64-bit interrupt_enter_prepare

2023-02-10T11:17:35Z

There are two separeate implementations for 32-bit and 64-bit which mostly do the same thing. Consolidating on one implementation ends up being smaller and simpler, there is just irq soft-mask reconcile that is specific to 64-bit. There should be no real functional change with this patch, but it does make the context tracking calls necessary for 32-bit to support context tracking. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230121095805.2823731-2-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc/64s: Add missing declaration for machine_check_early_boot()

2022-11-25T13:25:32Z

There's no declaration for machine_check_early_boot(), which leads to a build failure with W=1. Add one. Fixes: 2f5182cffa43 ("powerpc/64s: early boot machine check handler") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221125132521.2167039-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

powerpc/64/interrupt: avoid BUG/WARN recursion in interrupt entry

2022-09-28T09:22:11Z

BUG/WARN are handled with a program interrupt which can turn into an infinite recursion when there are bugs in interrupt handler entry (which can be irritated by bugs in other parts of the code). There is one feeble attempt to avoid this recursion, but it misses several cases. Make a tidier macro for this and switch most bugs in the interrupt entry wrapper over to use it. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926054305.2671436-7-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc/64/interrupt: Fix false warning in context tracking due to idle state