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| author | Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com> | 2006-03-23 00:00:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2006-03-27 14:48:20 +1100 |
| commit | 5536408c21cdde38bfdbb59a6fd4fcbf1232699f (patch) | |
| tree | 70ef920f6bc97383d1363926f19499167d0d2249 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | d0e57c68373f8ded8c50245fd082e606f9f63221 (diff) | |
[PATCH] powerpc: work around a cell interrupt HW bug
Apparently we have found a bug in the CPU that causes
external interrupts to sometimes get disabled indefinitely.
This adds a workaround for the problem.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c index 9d41e07b0c9..e3fffdfcc67 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c @@ -63,7 +63,24 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct iic, iic); void iic_local_enable(void) { - out_be64(&__get_cpu_var(iic).regs->prio, 0xff); + struct iic *iic = &__get_cpu_var(iic); + u64 tmp; + + /* + * There seems to be a bug that is present in DD2.x CPUs + * and still only partially fixed in DD3.1. + * This bug causes a value written to the priority register + * not to make it there, resulting in a system hang unless we + * write it again. + * Masking with 0xf0 is done because the Cell BE does not + * implement the lower four bits of the interrupt priority, + * they always read back as zeroes, although future CPUs + * might implement different bits. + */ + do { + out_be64(&iic->regs->prio, 0xff); + tmp = in_be64(&iic->regs->prio); + } while ((tmp & 0xf0) != 0xf0); } void iic_local_disable(void) |