[RFC PATCH v2 43/45] arm64: smp: Add NMI support for LPI-backed IPIs
Vladimir Murzin
vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Mon Jul 27 09:34:51 PDT 2026
LPI-backed IPIs are currently always requested and managed as regular
IRQs. Allow IPIs selected by ipi_should_be_nmi() to be requested as
NMIs, falling back to regular IRQs when the NMI request fails.
Track which IPIs were successfully requested as NMIs so that the
per-CPU enable and disable paths use the appropriate NMI helpers.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 9bacdbb2aa44..012633ea8347 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1123,16 +1123,24 @@ static const struct ipi_irq_ops ipi_sgi_ops = {
static void ipi_lpi_enable(int cpu, int ipi)
{
- enable_irq(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
+ if (test_bit(ipi, get_ipi_nmi_bitmap(cpu)))
+ enable_nmi(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
+ else
+ enable_irq(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
}
static void ipi_lpi_disable(int cpu, int ipi)
{
- disable_irq(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
+ if (test_bit(ipi, get_ipi_nmi_bitmap(cpu)))
+ disable_nmi_nosync(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
+ else
+ disable_irq(irq_desc_get_irq(get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi)));
}
static void ipi_lpi_setup(int ipi, int ncpus)
{
+ bool is_nmi = ipi_should_be_nmi(ipi);
+
for (int cpu = 0; cpu < ncpus; cpu++) {
int err, irq;
@@ -1141,13 +1149,29 @@ static void ipi_lpi_setup(int ipi, int ncpus)
err = irq_force_affinity(irq, cpumask_of(cpu));
WARN(err, "Could not force affinity IRQ %d, err=%d\n", irq, err);
- err = request_irq(irq, ipi_handler, IRQF_NO_AUTOEN, "IPI",
- NULL);
- WARN(err, "Could not request IRQ %d, err=%d\n", irq, err);
+ /*
+ * Try to request NMI if it should be
+ */
+ if (is_nmi && request_nmi(irq, ipi_handler, IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NO_AUTOEN, "IPI", NULL)) {
+ /*
+ * Fallback to regular IRQ
+ */
+ is_nmi = false;
+ }
+ /*
+ * Otherwise regular IRQ
+ */
+ if (!is_nmi) {
+ err = request_irq(irq, ipi_handler, IRQF_NO_AUTOEN, "IPI", NULL);
+ WARN(err, "Could not request IRQ %d, err=%d\n", irq, err);
+ }
irq_set_status_flags(irq, (IRQ_HIDDEN | IRQ_NO_BALANCING_MASK));
get_ipi_desc(cpu, ipi) = irq_to_desc(irq);
+
+ if (is_nmi)
+ set_bit(ipi, get_ipi_nmi_bitmap(cpu));
}
}
--
2.34.1
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