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<title>powerpc: Give hypervisor decrementer interrupts their own handler</title>
<updated>2012-09-05T06:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T13:56:11+00:00</published>
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At the moment the handler for hypervisor decrementer interrupts is
the same as for decrementer interrupts, i.e. timer_interrupt().
This is bogus; if we ever do get a hypervisor decrementer interrupt
it won't have anything to do with the next timer event.  In fact
the only time we get hypervisor decrementer interrupts is when one
is left pending on exit from a KVM guest.

When we get a hypervisor decrementer interrupt we don't need to do
anything special to clear it, since they are edge-triggered on the
transition of HDEC from 0 to -1.  Thus this adds an empty handler
function for them.  We don't need to have them masked when interrupts
are soft-disabled, so we use STD_EXCEPTION_HV instead of
MASKABLE_EXCEPTION_HV.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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At the moment the handler for hypervisor decrementer interrupts is
the same as for decrementer interrupts, i.e. timer_interrupt().
This is bogus; if we ever do get a hypervisor decrementer interrupt
it won't have anything to do with the next timer event.  In fact
the only time we get hypervisor decrementer interrupts is when one
is left pending on exit from a KVM guest.

When we get a hypervisor decrementer interrupt we don't need to do
anything special to clear it, since they are edge-triggered on the
transition of HDEC from 0 to -1.  Thus this adds an empty handler
function for them.  We don't need to have them masked when interrupts
are soft-disabled, so we use STD_EXCEPTION_HV instead of
MASKABLE_EXCEPTION_HV.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add a symbol for hypervisor trampolines</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T04:18:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>michael@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-03T20:29:41+00:00</published>
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Purely for cosmetic purposes, otherwise it can appear that we are in
single_step_pSeries() which is slightly confusing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Purely for cosmetic purposes, otherwise it can appear that we are in
single_step_pSeries() which is slightly confusing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO instead of open coded assembly</title>
<updated>2012-07-11T04:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stuart Yoder</name>
<email>stuart.yoder@freescale.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-05T04:41:35+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder &lt;stuart.yoder@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T23:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T23:17:30+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...
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Pull KVM changes from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include additional instruction emulation, page-crossing MMIO,
  faster dirty logging, preventing the watchdog from killing a stopped
  guest, module autoload, a new MSI ABI, and some minor optimizations
  and fixes.  Outside x86 we have a small s390 and a very large ppc
  update.

  Regarding the new (for kvm) rebaseless workflow, some of the patches
  that were merged before we switch trees had to be rebased, while
  others are true pulls.  In either case the signoffs should be correct
  now."

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_segment.S and arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h.

I suspect the kvm_para.h resolution ends up doing the "do I have cpuid"
check effectively twice (it was done differently in two different
commits), but better safe than sorry ;)

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (125 commits)
  KVM: make asm-generic/kvm_para.h have an ifdef __KERNEL__ block
  KVM: s390: onereg for timer related registers
  KVM: s390: epoch difference and TOD programmable field
  KVM: s390: KVM_GET/SET_ONEREG for s390
  KVM: s390: add capability indicating COW support
  KVM: Fix mmu_reload() clash with nested vmx event injection
  KVM: MMU: Don't use RCU for lockless shadow walking
  KVM: VMX: Optimize %ds, %es reload
  KVM: VMX: Fix %ds/%es clobber
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert bsf/bsr instructions to emulate_2op_SrcV_nobyte()
  KVM: VMX: unlike vmcs on fail path
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up SPR reads and writes
  KVM: PPC: Emulator: clean up instruction parsing
  kvm/powerpc: Add new ioctl to retreive server MMU infos
  kvm/book3s: Make kernel emulated H_PUT_TCE available for "PR" KVM
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Fix r8/r13 storing in level exception handler
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Enable IRQs during exit handling
  KVM: PPC: Fix PR KVM on POWER7 bare metal
  KVM: PPC: Fix stbux emulation
  KVM: PPC: bookehv: Use lwz/stw instead of PPC_LL/PPC_STL for 32-bit fields
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' into next</title>
<updated>2012-05-09T00:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-09T00:57:57+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/irq: Make alignment &amp; program interrupt behave the same</title>
<updated>2012-05-08T23:42:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-08T03:38:50+00:00</published>
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Alignment was the last user of the ENABLE_INTS macro, which we can
now remove. All non-syscall exceptions now disable interrupts on
entry, they get re-enabled conditionally from C code. Don't
unconditionally re-enable in program check either, check the
original context.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Alignment was the last user of the ENABLE_INTS macro, which we can
now remove. All non-syscall exceptions now disable interrupts on
entry, they get re-enabled conditionally from C code. Don't
unconditionally re-enable in program check either, check the
original context.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY</title>
<updated>2012-04-30T05:37:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-18T02:21:52+00:00</published>
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Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two
things:

- It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is
  little downside to compiling this in.

- It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions.
  Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via
  a feature fixup.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Remove CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY, the option is badly named and only does two
things:

- It wraps the MMU segment table code. With feature fixups there is
  little downside to compiling this in.

- It uses the newer mtocrf instruction in various assembly functions.
  Instead of making this a compile option just do it at runtime via
  a feature fixup.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make secondary threads more robust against stray IPIs</title>
<updated>2012-04-08T11:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-03T00:54:17+00:00</published>
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Currently on POWER7, if we are running the guest on a core and we don't
need all the hardware threads, we do nothing to ensure that the unused
threads aren't executing in the kernel (other than checking that they
are offline).  We just assume they're napping and we don't do anything
to stop them trying to enter the kernel while the guest is running.
This means that a stray IPI can wake up the hardware thread and it will
then try to enter the kernel, but since the core is in guest context,
it will execute code from the guest in hypervisor mode once it turns the
MMU on, which tends to lead to crashes or hangs in the host.

This fixes the problem by adding two new one-byte flags in the
kvmppc_host_state structure in the PACA which are used to interlock
between the primary thread and the unused secondary threads when entering
the guest.  With these flags, the primary thread can ensure that the
unused secondaries are not already in kernel mode (i.e. handling a stray
IPI) and then indicate that they should not try to enter the kernel
if they do get woken for any reason.  Instead they will go into KVM code,
find that there is no vcpu to run, acknowledge and clear the IPI and go
back to nap mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently on POWER7, if we are running the guest on a core and we don't
need all the hardware threads, we do nothing to ensure that the unused
threads aren't executing in the kernel (other than checking that they
are offline).  We just assume they're napping and we don't do anything
to stop them trying to enter the kernel while the guest is running.
This means that a stray IPI can wake up the hardware thread and it will
then try to enter the kernel, but since the core is in guest context,
it will execute code from the guest in hypervisor mode once it turns the
MMU on, which tends to lead to crashes or hangs in the host.

This fixes the problem by adding two new one-byte flags in the
kvmppc_host_state structure in the PACA which are used to interlock
between the primary thread and the unused secondary threads when entering
the guest.  With these flags, the primary thread can ensure that the
unused secondaries are not already in kernel mode (i.e. handling a stray
IPI) and then indicate that they should not try to enter the kernel
if they do get woken for any reason.  Instead they will go into KVM code,
find that there is no vcpu to run, acknowledge and clear the IPI and go
back to nap mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T21:35:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T21:35:31+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
  PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
  large ppc update, and random fixes."

This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.

* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
  KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
  x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
  KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
  KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
  KVM: MMU: make use of -&gt;root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
  KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
  KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
  KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
  KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
  KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
  KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
  KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
  KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
  KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
  KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
  KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
  KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
  KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Avi Kivity:
 "Changes include timekeeping improvements, support for assigning host
  PCI devices that share interrupt lines, s390 user-controlled guests, a
  large ppc update, and random fixes."

This is with the sign-off's fixed, hopefully next merge window we won't
have rebased commits.

* 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock
  KVM: x86: fix kvm_write_tsc() TSC matching thinko
  x86: kvmclock: abstract save/restore sched_clock_state
  KVM: nVMX: Fix erroneous exception bitmap check
  KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
  KVM: MMU: make use of -&gt;root_level in reset_rsvds_bits_mask
  KVM: PMU: add proper support for fixed counter 2
  KVM: PMU: Fix raw event check
  KVM: PMU: warn when pin control is set in eventsel msr
  KVM: VMX: Fix delayed load of shared MSRs
  KVM: use correct tlbs dirty type in cmpxchg
  KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices
  KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings
  KVM: x86 emulator: Allow PM/VM86 switch during task switch
  KVM: SVM: Fix CPL updates
  KVM: x86 emulator: VM86 segments must have DPL 3
  KVM: x86 emulator: Fix task switch privilege checks
  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c: included linux/sched.h twice
  KVM: x86 emulator: correctly mask pmc index bits in RDPMC instruction emulation
  KVM: mmu_notifier: Flush TLBs before releasing mmu_lock
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Rework lazy-interrupt handling</title>
<updated>2012-03-09T02:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-06T07:27:59+00:00</published>
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The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
issues that this tries to address.

We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
interrupts.

The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
"edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.

Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.

This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.

The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
"irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
occurred while soft-disabled.

When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
field.

We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
arch_local_irq_enable case).

This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
fake interrupts, among others.

In addition, this adds a few refinements:

 - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
(on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
performance monitor interrupts.

 - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
perf sample quality.

 - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)

 - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.

Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
---

v2:

- Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
- Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
- Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
- Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
  to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable

v3:

 - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
 - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E

v4:

 - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E

v5:

 - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
rework of some aspects of the patch.

v6:
 - 32-bit compile fix
 - more compile fixes with various .config combos
 - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
 - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq

v7:
 - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
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The current implementation of lazy interrupts handling has some
issues that this tries to address.

We don't do the various workarounds we need to do when re-enabling
interrupts in some cases such as when returning from an interrupt
and thus we may still lose or get delayed decrementer or doorbell
interrupts.

The current scheme also makes it much harder to handle the external
"edge" interrupts provided by some BookE processors when using the
EPR facility (External Proxy) and the Freescale Hypervisor.

Additionally, we tend to keep interrupts hard disabled in a number
of cases, such as decrementer interrupts, external interrupts, or
when a masked decrementer interrupt is pending. This is sub-optimal.

This is an attempt at fixing it all in one go by reworking the way
we do the lazy interrupt disabling from the ground up.

The base idea is to replace the "hard_enabled" field with a
"irq_happened" field in which we store a bit mask of what interrupt
occurred while soft-disabled.

When re-enabling, either via arch_local_irq_restore() or when returning
from an interrupt, we can now decide what to do by testing bits in that
field.

We then implement replaying of the missed interrupts either by
re-using the existing exception frame (in exception exit case) or via
the creation of a new one from an assembly trampoline (in the
arch_local_irq_enable case).

This removes the need to play with the decrementer to try to create
fake interrupts, among others.

In addition, this adds a few refinements:

 - We no longer  hard disable decrementer interrupts that occur
while soft-disabled. We now simply bump the decrementer back to max
(on BookS) or leave it stopped (on BookE) and continue with hard interrupts
enabled, which means that we'll potentially get better sample quality from
performance monitor interrupts.

 - Timer, decrementer and doorbell interrupts now hard-enable
shortly after removing the source of the interrupt, which means
they no longer run entirely hard disabled. Again, this will improve
perf sample quality.

 - On Book3E 64-bit, we now make the performance monitor interrupt
act as an NMI like Book3S (the necessary C code for that to work
appear to already be present in the FSL perf code, notably calling
nmi_enter instead of irq_enter). (This also fixes a bug where BookE
perfmon interrupts could clobber r14 ... oops)

 - We could make "masked" decrementer interrupts act as NMIs when doing
timer-based perf sampling to improve the sample quality.

Signed-off-by-yet: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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v2:

- Add hard-enable to decrementer, timer and doorbells
- Fix CR clobber in masked irq handling on BookE
- Make embedded perf interrupt act as an NMI
- Add a PACA_HAPPENED_EE_EDGE for use by FSL if they want
  to retrigger an interrupt without preventing hard-enable

v3:

 - Fix or vs. ori bug on Book3E
 - Fix enabling of interrupts for some exceptions on Book3E

v4:

 - Fix resend of doorbells on return from interrupt on Book3E

v5:

 - Rebased on top of my latest series, which involves some significant
rework of some aspects of the patch.

v6:
 - 32-bit compile fix
 - more compile fixes with various .config combos
 - factor out the asm code to soft-disable interrupts
 - remove the C wrapper around preempt_schedule_irq

v7:
 - Fix a bug with hard irq state tracking on native power7
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