Revert "powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call"
At the time this was submitted by Leonardo, I confirmed -- or thought I had confirmed -- with PowerVM partition firmware development that the following RTAS functions: - ibm,get-xive - ibm,int-off - ibm,int-on - ibm,set-xive were safe to call on multiple CPUs simultaneously, not only with respect to themselves as indicated by PAPR, but with arbitrary other RTAS calls: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/875zcy2v8o.fsf@linux.ibm.com/ Recent discussion with firmware development makes it clear that this is not true, and that the code in commit b664db8e ("powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call") is unsafe, likely explaining several strange bugs we've seen in internal testing involving DLPAR and LPM. These scenarios use ibm,configure-connector, whose internal state can be corrupted by the concurrent use of the "reentrant" functions, leading to symptoms like endless busy statuses from RTAS. Fixes: b664db8e ("powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+ Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220907220111.223267-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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