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The arm64 entry code suffers from an annoying issue on taking
a NMI, as it sets PMR to a value that actually allows IRQs
to be acknowledged. This is done for consistency with other parts
of the code, and is in the process of being fixed. This shouldn't
be a problem, as we are not enabling interrupts whilst in NMI
context.
However, in the infortunate scenario that we took a spurious NMI
(retired before the read of IAR) *and* that there is an IRQ pending
at the same time, we'll ack the IRQ in NMI context. Too bad.
In order to avoid deadlocks while running something like perf,
teach the GICv3 driver about this situation: if we were in
a context where no interrupt should have fired, transiently
set PMR to a value that only allows NMIs before acking the pending
interrupt, and restore the original value after that.
This papers over the core issue for the time being, and makes
NMIs great again. Sort of.
Fixes:
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.