[RFC PATCH 31/36] arm64: nmi: Add handling of superpriority interrupts as NMIs
From: Vladimir Murzin <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-09 12:15:36
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Our goal with superpriority interrupts is to use them as NMIs, taking advantage of the much smaller regions where they are masked to allow prompt handling of the most time-critical interrupts. When an interrupt is configured with superpriority, we enter EL1 as we do for any other interrupt. The presence of a superpriority interrupt is indicated by a status bit in ISR_EL1. We check this bit before unmasking interrupts in elX_interrupt(), and if a superpriority interrupt is pending, we handle it as an NMI. Otherwise, normal interrupts are handled as usual. Since superpriority interrupts are always handled as NMIs, the interrupt controller can rely on in_nmi() to distinguish them from ordinary interrupts. Enable IPIs to use superpriority interrupts as NMIs, matching the existing pseudo-NMI behaviour. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <redacted> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <redacted> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h | 7 ++++ arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++--------- arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h
index 73d82a8d8e95..0681ba91ac3b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/entry-common.h@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ static inline bool arch_irqentry_exit_need_resched(void) if (system_uses_irq_prio_masking() && read_sysreg(daif)) return false; + /* + * If AllInt is set then we must have handled an NMI, so skip + * preemption + */ + if (system_uses_nmi() && read_sysreg_s(SYS_ALLINT)) + return false; + /* * Preempting a task from an IRQ means we leave copies of PSTATE * on the stack. cpufeature's enable calls may modify PSTATE, but
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
index a13653b228b7..de71d5a3a6a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c@@ -525,8 +525,8 @@ asmlinkage void noinstr el1h_64_sync_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) arm64_debug_exc_context(CRITICAL_CONTEXT); } -static __always_inline void __el1_pnmi(struct pt_regs *regs, - void (*handler)(struct pt_regs *)) +static __always_inline void __el1_nmi(struct pt_regs *regs, + void (*handler)(struct pt_regs *)) { arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate; irqentry_state_t state;
@@ -545,7 +545,10 @@ static __always_inline void __el1_irq(struct pt_regs *regs, state = arm64_enter_from_kernel_mode(regs); - arm64_unmask_exc_context(NONMI_CONTEXT); + if (system_uses_nmi()) + arm64_unmask_exc_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT); + else + arm64_unmask_exc_context(NONMI_CONTEXT); irq_enter_rcu(); do_interrupt_handler(regs, handler);
@@ -565,8 +568,11 @@ static __always_inline void __el1_irq(struct pt_regs *regs, static void noinstr el1_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs, void (*handler)(struct pt_regs *)) { - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI) && regs_irqs_disabled(regs)) - __el1_pnmi(regs, handler); + /* Is there a NMI to handle? */ + if (regs_irqs_disabled(regs)) + __el1_nmi(regs, handler); + else if (system_uses_nmi() && (read_sysreg(isr_el1) & (ISR_EL1_IS | ISR_EL1_FS))) + __el1_nmi(regs, handler); else __el1_irq(regs, handler);
@@ -906,24 +912,39 @@ asmlinkage void noinstr el0t_64_sync_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) static void noinstr el0_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs, void (*handler)(struct pt_regs *)) { - arm64_enter_from_user_mode(regs); - - arm64_unmask_exc_context(NONMI_CONTEXT); - if (regs->pc & BIT(55)) arm64_apply_bp_hardening(); - irq_enter_rcu(); - do_interrupt_handler(regs, handler); - irq_exit_rcu(); + /* Is there a NMI to handle? */ + if (system_uses_nmi() && (read_sysreg(isr_el1) & (ISR_EL1_IS | ISR_EL1_FS))) { + irqentry_state_t state; + arm64_exc_hwstate_t hwstate; + + state = irqentry_nmi_enter(regs); + hwstate = arm64_unmask_exc_context(NONMI_CONTEXT); + do_interrupt_handler(regs, handler); + arm64_mask_exc_context(hwstate); + irqentry_nmi_exit(regs, state); + } else { + arm64_enter_from_user_mode(regs); + + if (system_uses_nmi()) + arm64_unmask_exc_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT); + else + arm64_unmask_exc_context(NONMI_CONTEXT); + + irq_enter_rcu(); + do_interrupt_handler(regs, handler); + irq_exit_rcu(); + /* + * For the same reason as in el1_irq() we effectivly + * have NOIRQ_CONTEXT on return from handler - keep + * track of it + */ + arm64_debug_exc_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT); + arm64_exit_to_user_mode(regs, arm64_exc_hwstate_of_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT)); + } - /* - * For the same reason as in el1_irq() we effectivly - * have NOIRQ_CONTEXT on return from handler - keep - * track of it - */ - arm64_debug_exc_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT); - arm64_exit_to_user_mode(regs, arm64_exc_hwstate_of_context(NOIRQ_CONTEXT)); arm64_debug_exc_context(CRITICAL_CONTEXT); }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 257d50529d14..80e35a8e5c8f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ static void smp_cross_call(const struct cpumask *target, unsigned int ipinr) static bool ipi_should_be_nmi(enum ipi_msg_type ipi) { - if (!system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) + if (!system_uses_nmi() && !system_uses_irq_prio_masking()) return false; switch (ipi) {
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