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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h index 19bcef666cf6..21cc571ea9c2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h @@ -18,8 +18,17 @@ * PACA flags in paca->irq_happened. * * This bits are set when interrupts occur while soft-disabled - * and allow a proper replay. Additionally, PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS - * is set whenever we manually hard disable. + * and allow a proper replay. + * + * The PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS is set whenever we hard disable. It is almost + * always in synch with the MSR[EE] state, except: + * - A window in interrupt entry, where hardware disables MSR[EE] and that + * must be "reconciled" with the soft mask state. + * - NMI interrupts that hit in awkward places, until they fix the state. + * - When local irqs are being enabled and state is being fixed up. + * - When returning from an interrupt there are some windows where this + * can become out of synch, but gets fixed before the RFI or before + * executing the next user instruction (see arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c). */ #define PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS 0x01 #define PACA_IRQ_DBELL 0x02 |