Subject: [RFC v2 0/3] Support Soft NMI

From: Balbir Singh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:30:55 +1100

This patch is based on suggestions from paulus and benh.
The bugs are all mine. The idea was to implement soft
NMI(s) by keeping interrupts enabled in the soft-disabled
state, but to use the interrupt controller to gate posting
of new interrupts to the processor. This is still work in
progress and a preliminary RFC that needs testing.

Nick posted a more comprehensive version for soft NMI at
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/704605/, but it does
not work when interrupts are disabled

TODOs:
	1. Integrate on top of
		https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/706983/

Changelog v2:
 - Rename functions as suggested by Nick
 - Move irq in paca down for better alignment
 - Break the patches up further into interrupt disabling
   and soft nmi patches
 - Support only PPC_XICS for now

Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>

Balbir Singh (3):
  Merge IPI and DEFAULT priorities
  Keep interrupts enabled even on soft disable
  Enable soft nmi handler

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h      |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/xics.h      |  8 ++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 33 +++++++++++++++++------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c            | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c           | 27 ++++++++++++++++++-
 5 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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