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There are cases where a context synchronization event is necessary between an IRQ being raised and being handled, and there are races such that we cannot rely upon the exception entry being subsequent to the interrupt being raised. To fix this, we place an ISB between a read of IAR and the subsequent invocation of an IRQ handler. When EOI mode 1 is in use, we need to EOI an interrupt prior to invoking its handler, and we have a write to EOIR for this. As this write to EOIR requires an ISB, and this is provided by the gic_write_eoir() helper, we omit the usual ISB in this case, with the logic being: | if (static_branch_likely(&supports_deactivate_key)) | gic_write_eoir(irqnr); | else | isb(); This is somewhat opaque, and it would be a little clearer if there were an unconditional ISB, with only the write to EOIR being conditional, e.g. | if (static_branch_likely(&supports_deactivate_key)) | write_gicreg(irqnr, ICC_EOIR1_EL1); | | isb(); This patch rewrites the code that way, with this logic factored into a new helper function with comments explaining what the ISB is for, as were originally laid out in commit: |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.