[IA64] Avoid kernel hang during CMC interrupt storm

I've noticed a kernel hang during a storm of CMC interrupts, which was
tracked down to the continual execution of the interrupt handler.

There's code in the CMC handler that's supposed to disable CMC
interrupts and switch to polling mode when it sees a bunch of CMCs.
Because disabling CMCs across all CPUs isn't safe in interrupt context,
the disable is done with a schedule_work().  But with continual CMC
interrupts, the schedule_work() never gets executed.

The following patch immediately disables CMC interrupts for the current
CPU.  This then allows (at least) one CPU to ignore CMC interrupts,
execute the schedule_work() code, and disable CMC interrupts on the rest
of the CPUs.

Acked-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
index 6dc726a..d0a5106 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
@@ -1016,6 +1016,11 @@ ia64_mca_cmc_int_handler(int cmc_irq, void *arg, struct pt_regs *ptregs)
 
                        cmc_polling_enabled = 1;
                        spin_unlock(&cmc_history_lock);
+                       /* If we're being hit with CMC interrupts, we won't
+                        * ever execute the schedule_work() below.  Need to
+                        * disable CMC interrupts on this processor now.
+                        */
+                       ia64_mca_cmc_vector_disable(NULL);
                        schedule_work(&cmc_disable_work);
 
                        /*