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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S index a42308b2187b..e66cbb1c6bc2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S @@ -1325,10 +1325,18 @@ EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x5800, 0x100) std r10,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R13(r13); \ EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES_1(soft_nmi_common, _H) +/* + * Branch to soft_nmi_interrupt using the emergency stack. The emergency + * stack is one that is usable by maskable interrupts so long as MSR_EE + * remains off. It is used for recovery when something has corrupted the + * normal kernel stack, for example. The "soft NMI" must not use the process + * stack because we want irq disabled sections to avoid touching the stack + * at all (other than PMU interrupts), so use the emergency stack for this, + * and run it entirely with interrupts hard disabled. + */ EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(soft_nmi_common) mr r10,r1 ld r1,PACAEMERGSP(r13) - ld r1,PACA_NMI_EMERG_SP(r13) subi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE EXCEPTION_COMMON_NORET_STACK(PACA_EXGEN, 0x900, system_reset, soft_nmi_interrupt, |