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diff --git a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.10/0085-irqchip-armada-370-xp-fix-IPI-race-condition.patch b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.10/0085-irqchip-armada-370-xp-fix-IPI-race-condition.patch
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--- a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.10/0085-irqchip-armada-370-xp-fix-IPI-race-condition.patch
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-From 60b78d28057f9f1ecce39955755d26e4cd3130de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>
-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:26:44 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH 085/203] irqchip: armada-370-xp: fix IPI race condition
-
-In the Armada 370/XP driver, when we receive an IRQ 0, we read the
-list of doorbells that caused the interrupt from register
-ARMADA_370_XP_IN_DRBEL_CAUSE_OFFS. This gives the list of IPIs that
-were generated. However, instead of acknowledging only the IPIs that
-were generated, we acknowledge *all* the IPIs, by writing
-~IPI_DOORBELL_MASK in the ARMADA_370_XP_IN_DRBEL_CAUSE_OFFS register.
-
-This creates a race condition: if a new IPI that isn't part of the
-ones read into the temporary "ipimask" variable is fired before we
-acknowledge all IPIs, then we will simply loose it. This is causing
-scheduling hangs on SMP intensive workloads.
-
-It is important to mention that this ARMADA_370_XP_IN_DRBEL_CAUSE_OFFS
-register has the following behavior: "A CPU write of 0 clears the bits
-in this field. A CPU write of 1 has no effect". This is what allows us
-to simply write ~ipimask to acknoledge the handled IPIs.
-
-Notice that the same problem is present in the MSI implementation, but
-it will be fixed as a separate patch, so that this IPI fix can be
-pushed to older stable versions as appropriate (all the way to 3.8),
-while the MSI code only appeared in 3.13.
-
-Signed-off-by: Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>
-Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
-Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
----
- drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
---- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
-+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
-@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ armada_370_xp_handle_irq(struct pt_regs
- ARMADA_370_XP_IN_DRBEL_CAUSE_OFFS)
- & IPI_DOORBELL_MASK;
-
-- writel(~IPI_DOORBELL_MASK, per_cpu_int_base +
-+ writel(~ipimask, per_cpu_int_base +
- ARMADA_370_XP_IN_DRBEL_CAUSE_OFFS);
-
- /* Handle all pending doorbells */