From 54321242afe6fcf8b7e589bc21ecf832bc5a206a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:42:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Disable interrupts early in Program Check Program Check exceptions are the result of WARNs, BUGs, some type of breakpoints, kprobe, and other illegal instructions. We want interrupts (and thus preemption) to remain disabled while doing the initial stage of testing the reason and branching off to a debugger or kprobe, so we are still on the original CPU which makes debugging easier in various cases. This is how the code was intended, hence the local_irq_enable() right in the middle of program_check_exception(). However, the assembly exception prologue for that exception was incorrectly marked as enabling interrupts, which defeats that (and records a redundant enable with lockdep). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S index d4be7bb3dbdf..3844ca7c5099 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ program_check_common: EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON(0x700, PACA_EXGEN) bl .save_nvgprs addi r3,r1,STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD - ENABLE_INTS + DISABLE_INTS bl .program_check_exception b .ret_from_except -- 2.20.1