[Lucid-ec2] SRU: xen: events: do not unmask event channels on resume

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Apr 6 15:40:23 UTC 2011


On 01/19/2011 02:20 PM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact: With the current ec2 kernels the kernel oops described below is
> experienced as a result of enabling interrupts on the pv spinlock event
> channel.
> 
> Fix: The following patch is taken from upstream and is included in 2.6.37.
> It has been reported to successfully prevent the oops.
> 
> Testcase: Migration of a guest (using suspend)
> 

I just have added that patch to the lucid master-next branch. Currently it is in
the ec2 branch but I'll drop it there on the next rebase. This only has effect
for people using the generic kernel as a paravirt guest in Xen. So it never was
doing any good in the ec2 branch anyway.

Stefan

> ---
> 
> From 6903591f314b8947d0e362bda7715e90eb9df75e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:30:09 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] xen: events: do not unmask event channels on resume
> 
> The IRQ core code will take care of disabling and reenabling
> interrupts over suspend resume automatically, therefore we do not need
> to do this in the Xen event channel code.
> 
> The only exception is those event channels marked IRQF_NO_SUSPEND
> which the IRQ core ignores. We must unmask these ourselves, taking
> care to obey the current IRQ_DISABLED status. Failure check for
> IRQ_DISABLED leads to enabling polled only event channels, such as
> that associated with the pv spinlocks, which must never be enabled:
> 
> [   21.970432] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   21.970432] kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c:343!
> [   21.970432] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [   21.970432] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/operstate
> [   21.970432] Modules linked in:
> [   21.970432]
> [   21.970432] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.32.24-x86_32p-xen-01034-g787c727 #34)
> [   21.970432] EIP: 0061:[<c102e209>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 3
> [   21.970432] EIP is at dummy_handler+0x3/0x7
> [   21.970432] EAX: 0000021c EBX: dfc16880 ECX: 0000001a EDX: 00000000
> [   21.970432] ESI: dfc02c00 EDI: 00000001 EBP: dfc47e10 ESP: dfc47e10
> [   21.970432]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069
> [   21.970432] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=dfc46000 task=dfc39440 task.ti=dfc46000)
> [   21.970432] Stack:
> [   21.970432]  dfc47e30 c10a39f0 0000021c 00000000 00000000 dfc16880 0000021c 00000001
> [   21.970432] <0> dfc47e40 c10a4f08 0000021c 00000000 dfc47e78 c12240a7 c1839284 c1839284
> [   21.970432] <0> 00000200 00000000 00000000 f5720000 c1f3d028 c1f3d02c 00000180 dfc47e90
> [   21.970432] Call Trace:
> [   21.970432]  [<c10a39f0>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x5f/0x122
> [   21.970432]  [<c10a4f08>] ? handle_percpu_irq+0x2f/0x55
> [   21.970432]  [<c12240a7>] ? __xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xdb/0x15f
> [   21.970432]  [<c122481e>] ? xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x20/0x30
> [   21.970432]  [<c1030d47>] ? xen_do_upcall+0x7/0xc
> [   21.970432]  [<c102007b>] ? apic_reg_read+0xd3/0x22d
> [   21.970432]  [<c1002227>] ? hypercall_page+0x227/0x1005
> [   21.970432]  [<c102d30b>] ? xen_force_evtchn_callback+0xf/0x14
> [   21.970432]  [<c102da7c>] ? check_events+0x8/0xc
> [   21.970432]  [<c102da3b>] ? xen_irq_enable_direct_end+0x0/0x1
> [   21.970432]  [<c105e485>] ? finish_task_switch+0x62/0xba
> [   21.970432]  [<c14e3f84>] ? schedule+0x808/0x89d
> [   21.970432]  [<c1084dc5>] ? hrtimer_start_expires+0x1a/0x22
> [   21.970432]  [<c1085154>] ? tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x15a/0x162
> [   21.970432]  [<c102f43a>] ? cpu_idle+0x6d/0x6f
> [   21.970432]  [<c14db29e>] ? cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xd/0xf
> [   21.970432] Code: 5d 0f 95 c0 0f b6 c0 c3 55 66 83 78 02 00 89 e5 5d 0f 95 \
> c0 0f b6 c0 c3 55 b2 01 86 10 31 c0 84 d2 89 e5 0f 94 c0 5d c3 55 89 e5 <0f> 0b \
> eb fe 55 80 3d 4c ce 84 c1 00 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 53 74 15
> [   21.970432] EIP: [<c102e209>] dummy_handler+0x3/0x7 SS:ESP 0069:dfc47e10
> [   21.970432] ---[ end trace c0b71f7e12cf3011 ]---
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681083
> 
> (cherry-picked from commit 6903591f314b8947d0e362bda7715e90eb9df75e upstream)
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/events.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> index 97612f5..321a0c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> @@ -1299,9 +1299,6 @@ static void restore_cpu_virqs(unsigned int cpu)
>  		evtchn_to_irq[evtchn] = irq;
>  		irq_info[irq] = mk_virq_info(evtchn, virq);
>  		bind_evtchn_to_cpu(evtchn, cpu);
> -
> -		/* Ready for use. */
> -		unmask_evtchn(evtchn);
>  	}
>  }
>  
> @@ -1327,10 +1324,6 @@ static void restore_cpu_ipis(unsigned int cpu)
>  		evtchn_to_irq[evtchn] = irq;
>  		irq_info[irq] = mk_ipi_info(evtchn, ipi);
>  		bind_evtchn_to_cpu(evtchn, cpu);
> -
> -		/* Ready for use. */
> -		unmask_evtchn(evtchn);
> -
>  	}
>  }
>  
> @@ -1390,6 +1383,7 @@ void xen_poll_irq(int irq)
>  void xen_irq_resume(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned int cpu, irq, evtchn;
> +	struct irq_desc *desc;
>  
>  	init_evtchn_cpu_bindings();
>  
> @@ -1408,6 +1402,23 @@ void xen_irq_resume(void)
>  		restore_cpu_virqs(cpu);
>  		restore_cpu_ipis(cpu);
>  	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Unmask any IRQF_NO_SUSPEND IRQs which are enabled. These
> +	 * are not handled by the IRQ core.
> +	 */
> +	for_each_irq_desc(irq, desc) {
> +		if (!desc->action || !(desc->action->flags & IRQF_NO_SUSPEND))
> +			continue;
> +		if (desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		evtchn = evtchn_from_irq(irq);
> +		if (evtchn == -1)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		unmask_evtchn(evtchn);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static struct irq_chip xen_dynamic_chip __read_mostly = {





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