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Commit 5d38902c authored by Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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powerpc: Add irqtrace support for 32-bit powerpc



Based on initial work from: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

Add the low level irq tracing hooks for 32-bit powerpc needed
to enable full lockdep functionality.

The approach taken to deal with the code in entry_32.S is that
we don't trace all the transitions of MSR:EE when we just turn
it off to peek at TI_FLAGS without races. Only when we are
calling into C code or returning from exceptions with a state
that have changed from what lockdep thinks.

There's a little bugger though: If we take an exception that
keeps interrupts enabled (such as an alignment exception) while
interrupts are enabled, we will call trace_hardirqs_on() on the
way back spurriously. Not a big deal, but to get rid of it would
require remembering in pt_regs that the exception was one of the
type that kept interrupts enabled which we don't know at this
stage. (Well, we could test all cases for regs->trap but that
sucks too much).

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 04a85d12
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