On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:39:28 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > The decrementer exception can fail to be cleared when the interrupt > returns in the case where the decrementer wraps with the next timer > still beyond decrementer_max. This results in a decrementer interrupt > storm. This is triggerable with small decrementer system with hard > and soft watchdogs disabled. > > Fix this by always programming the decrementer if there was no timer. > > [...]
Patch 1 applied to powerpc/fixes. [1/3] powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix decrementer storm https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8defc2a5dd8f4c0cb19ecbaca8d3e89ab98524da cheers