Question about interrupt prioriyt of ARM GICv3/4

[Marc Zyngier]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:02:45 +0000,
Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Based on my experience with OpenBSD, I'm not even sure there is much
> benefit even if you have preemtion.
> 
> And regarding anything wrong happening: there is an interesting bug in
> the RK3399 GIC integration where it gets the priorities wrong:
> 
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/feb3ea439d8f49b3c0e33f54c34631a611b98e21/sys/arch/arm64/dev/agintc.c#L395
> 
> (that comment is my interpretation of what's happening; I might be
> misinterpreting what's really going on)
> 
> As far as I can tell the Linux code doesn't handle that quirk.
> Probably it doesn't matter because Linux only uses the priority
> mechanisms to implement pseudo-NMI functionality and/or doesn't do
> preemption of interrupts.

Ah, beautiful! We actually do preemption with pseudo-NMI, and as it
turns out, I just had a report of 6.11 being broken on that SoC when
pNMIs are enabled.

My "solution" for this is to just disable security at the distributor
level, and let things rip, see [1].

Thanks for the heads up!

	M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213141037.3995049-1-maz@kernel.org

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