Cascade interrupts do not use threads, thus handlers are called with interrupts disabled. This means that we must not grab regular spinlocks, since they might sleep:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context swapper(0) at kernel/rtmutex.c:743 in_atomic():1 [00010002], irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [c0353e00] [c0008a04] show_stack+0x4c/0x1ac (unreliable) [c0353e40] [c001ca18] __might_sleep+0xc0/0x108 [c0353e50] [c0254218] __rt_spin_lock+0x30/0xa0 [c0353e60] [c0018238] qe_ic_mask_irq+0x58/0xc4 [c0353e80] [c0057bc8] handle_level_irq+0x40/0x178 [c0353ea0] [c001a5c0] qe_ic_cascade_low_ipic+0x50/0x68 [c0353eb0] [c00066d0] do_IRQ+0x9c/0xc0 [c0353ec0] [c001167c] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- Exception: 501 at cpu_idle+0xa0/0x104 LR = cpu_idle+0xa0/0x104 [c0353f80] [c0009b5c] cpu_idle+0x50/0x104 (unreliable) [c0353fa0] [c0256088] _etext+0x88/0x9c [c0353fc0] [c0304af8] start_kernel+0x1c4/0x244 [c0353ff0] [00003438] 0x3438 To fix the issue we should use raw spin lock. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Note, the patch is for -rt tree only. arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c index f59444d..a30169c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe_ic.c @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ #include "qe_ic.h" -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(qe_ic_lock); +static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(qe_ic_lock); static struct qe_ic_info qe_ic_info[] = { [1] = { -- 1.5.6.3 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev