[POWERPC] PS3: Fix system slowdown

The PS3 HV will deliver soft-disabled interrupts at the next HV call or
interrupt.  Add an HV call to local_irq_restore() to force the timely
delivery of any pending interrupts.

This fixes the system slowdown bug reported here
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8260

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 6c83fe229e60..5719a530f2d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 #include <asm/paca.h>
 #include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/lv1call.h>
 #endif
 
 int __irq_offset_value;
@@ -162,6 +163,16 @@ void local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
         local_paca->hard_enabled = en;
         if ((int)mfspr(SPRN_DEC) < 0)
                 mtspr(SPRN_DEC, 1);
+
+        /*
+         * Force the delivery of pending soft-disabled interrupts on PS3.
+         * Any HV call will have this side effect.
+         */
+        if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_PS3_LV1)) {
+                u64 tmp;
+                lv1_get_version_info(&tmp);
+        }
+
         hard_irq_enable();
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */