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Mark Rutland
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Some MediaTek devices have broken firmware which corrupts some GICR registers behind the back of the OS, and pseudo-NMIs cannot be used on these devices. For more details see commit:44bd78dd2b("irqchip/gic-v3: Disable pseudo NMIs on Mediatek devices w/ firmware issues") We did not take this problem into account in commit:331a1b3a83("arm64: smp: Add arch support for backtrace using pseudo-NMI") Since that commit arm64's SMP code will try to setup some IPIs as pseudo-NMIs, even on systems with broken FW. The GICv3 code will (rightly) reject attempts to request interrupts as pseudo-NMIs, resulting in boot-time failures. Avoid the problem by taking the broken FW into account when deciding to request IPIs as pseudo-NMIs. The GICv3 driver maintains a static_key named "supports_pseudo_nmis" which is false on systems with broken FW, and we can consult this within ipi_should_be_nmi(). Fixes:331a1b3a83("arm64: smp: Add arch support for backtrace using pseudo-NMI") Reported-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> Closes: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/197061987#comment68 Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Linux kernel
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