[ 19/68] sparc64: Eliminate obsolete __handle_softirq() function

[Greg KH]

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3d3eeb2ef26112a200785e5fca58ec58dd33bf1e upstream.

The invocation of softirq is now handled by irq_exit(), so there is no
need for sparc64 to invoke it on the trap-return path.  In fact, doing so
is a bug because if the trap occurred in the idle loop, this invocation
can result in lockdep-RCU failures.  The problem is that RCU ignores idle
CPUs, and the sparc64 trap-return path to the softirq handlers fails to
tell RCU that the CPU must be considered non-idle while those handlers
are executing.  This means that RCU is ignoring any RCU read-side critical
sections in those handlers, which in turn means that RCU-protected data
can be yanked out from under those read-side critical sections.

The shiny new lockdep-RCU ability to detect RCU read-side critical sections
that RCU is ignoring located this problem.

The fix is straightforward: Make sparc64 stop manually invoking the
softirq handlers.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/rtrap_64.S
@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@
 
 		.text
 		.align			32
-__handle_softirq:
-		call			do_softirq
-		 nop
-		ba,a,pt			%xcc, __handle_softirq_continue
-		 nop
 __handle_preemption:
 		call			schedule
 		 wrpr			%g0, RTRAP_PSTATE, %pstate
@@ -89,9 +84,7 @@ rtrap:
 		cmp			%l1, 0
 
 		/* mm/ultra.S:xcall_report_regs KNOWS about this load. */
-		bne,pn			%icc, __handle_softirq
 		 ldx			[%sp + PTREGS_OFF + PT_V9_TSTATE], %l1
-__handle_softirq_continue:
 rtrap_xcall:
 		sethi			%hi(0xf << 20), %l4
 		and			%l1, %l4, %l4


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