Re: [Xen-devel] Re: 2.6.39 crashes BUG: unable to handle kernelNULL pointer dereference at 000000000000042 .. cmos_checkintr+0x4d/0x55under Xen as PV guest.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Mar 25 2011 - 08:21:57 EST
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:39:34PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:05 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > Or... more likely, the added rtc_set_alarm is enabling interrupts,
> > allowing an irq to land before the rtc_device_register completes.
> >
> > Oof.. ok. so that is a little gross.
> >
> >
> > Let me see if I can't work something out here.
>
> Konrad: Can you give this patch a shot to see if it changes the
> behavior?
Yup. It fixes it. Tested on PV i386 and x86_64 case. And also
as the initial domain as 32-bit and 64-bit.
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you for fixing it!
>
> Basically we still initialize the alarm timer from whatever the hardware
> is set to at boot time, but don't use the standard rtc_set_alarm, and
> instead initialize the aie_timer and enqueue it by hand.
>
> That should avoid having rtc_set_alarm enabling irqs possibly too early.
>
> thanks
> -john
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/class.c b/drivers/rtc/class.c
> index 09b4437..3901386 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/class.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ struct rtc_device *rtc_device_register(const char *name, struct device *dev,
> err = __rtc_read_alarm(rtc, &alrm);
>
> if (!err && !rtc_valid_tm(&alrm.time))
> - rtc_set_alarm(rtc, &alrm);
> + rtc_initialize_alarm(rtc, &alrm);
>
> strlcpy(rtc->name, name, RTC_DEVICE_NAME_SIZE);
> dev_set_name(&rtc->dev, "rtc%d", id);
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> index 8ec6b06..b2fea80 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
> @@ -375,6 +375,32 @@ int rtc_set_alarm(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_set_alarm);
>
> +/* Called once per device from rtc_device_register */
> +int rtc_initialize_alarm(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_wkalrm *alarm)
> +{
> + int err;
> +
> + err = rtc_valid_tm(&alarm->time);
> + if (err != 0)
> + return err;
> +
> + err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&rtc->ops_lock);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + rtc->aie_timer.node.expires = rtc_tm_to_ktime(alarm->time);
> + rtc->aie_timer.period = ktime_set(0, 0);
> + if (alarm->enabled) {
> + rtc->aie_timer.enabled = 1;
> + timerqueue_add(&rtc->timerqueue, &rtc->aie_timer.node);
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
> + return err;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_initialize_alarm);
> +
> +
> +
> int rtc_alarm_irq_enable(struct rtc_device *rtc, unsigned int enabled)
> {
> int err = mutex_lock_interruptible(&rtc->ops_lock);
> diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
> index 2ca7e8a..877ece4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rtc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
> @@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ extern int rtc_read_alarm(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm);
> extern int rtc_set_alarm(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm);
> +extern int rtc_initialize_alarm(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> + struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm);
> extern void rtc_update_irq(struct rtc_device *rtc,
> unsigned long num, unsigned long events);
>
>
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