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Vineet Gupta 13d9045508 ARC: !PREEMPT: Ensure Return to kernel mode is IRQ safe
commit 8aa9e85ada upstream.

There was a very small race window where resume to kernel mode from a
Exception Path (or pure kernel mode which is true for most of ARC
exceptions anyways), was not disabling interrupts in restore_regs,
clobbering the exception regs

Anton found the culprit call flow (after many sleepless nights)

| 1. we got a Trap from user land
| 2. started to service it.
| 3. While doing some stuff on user-land memory (I think it is padzero()),
|     we got a DataTlbMiss
| 4. On return from it we are taking "resume_kernel_mode" path
| 5. NEED_RESHED is not set, so we go to "return from exception" path in
|     restore regs.
| 6. there seems to be IRQ happening

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Anton Kolesov <Anton.Kolesov@synopsys.com>
Cc: Francois Bedard <Francois.Bedard@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-13 13:32:50 +02:00
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