[v6,0/1] MIPS: Fix idle VS timer enqueue

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Marco Crivellari March 15, 2025, 7:40 p.m. UTC

This patch aims to fix idle routine while the CPU receive an interrupt,
because __r4k_wait() only checks if TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set before
going to sleep.
The same behavior has been changed in LoongArch [1].

Code (cross) compiled successfully and I manage to test it on a VM
emulating a malta board. I ran QEMU with:

qemu-system-mips64el -M malta -m 2G -kernel vmlinux -serial stdio -drive \
file=rootfs.ext2,format=raw -append "rootwait root=/dev/sda" -cpu 5Kc

rootfs generated using buildroot (malta default configuration).

- [1] https://github.com/chenhuacai/linux/commit/a8aa673ea46c03b3f62992ffa4ffe810ac84f6e3

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Changes in v6:
 - typo in comment, capitalise sentences and full stops

Changes in v5:
 - comment: idle interrupt region, instead of rollback region

Changes in v4:
 - comments: 36 byte region

Changes in v3:
 - changed "daddiu k0, 1" with PTR_ADDIU k0, 5
 - replaced CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS with 3 _ssnop followed by _ehb
 - integrated the commit message with explanation about
   CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS replacement

Changes in v2:
 - Changes introduced by Huacai:
    https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/[e-mail]/T/#m75d9c587829e15e0d7baec13078be4e65c936408

Marco Crivellari (1):
  MIPS: Fix idle VS timer enqueue

 arch/mips/kernel/genex.S | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 arch/mips/kernel/idle.c  |  1 -
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)