Commit 0eb0d2e7 authored by Christophe Leroy's avatar Christophe Leroy Committed by Michael Ellerman

powerpc/32: Avoid risk of unrecoverable TLBmiss inside entry_32.S

By default, the 8xx pins an ITLB on the first 8M of memory in order
to avoid any ITLB miss on kernel code.
However, with some debug functions like DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
DEBUG_RODATA, pinning TLBs is contradictory.

In order to avoid any ITLB miss in a critical section without pinning
TLBs, we have to ensure that there is no page boundary crossed between
the setup of a new value in SRR0/SRR1 and the associated RFI.

The functions modifying srr0/srr1 are all located in setup_32.S.
They are spread over almost 4kbytes.

The patch forces a 12 bits (4kbytes) alignment for those
functions. This garanties that the functions remain in a
single 4k page.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent c8a12709
...@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ ...@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
#define LOAD_MSR_KERNEL(r, x) li r,(x) #define LOAD_MSR_KERNEL(r, x) li r,(x)
#endif #endif
/*
* Align to 4k in order to ensure that all functions modyfing srr0/srr1
* fit into one page in order to not encounter a TLB miss between the
* modification of srr0/srr1 and the associated rfi.
*/
.align 12
#ifdef CONFIG_BOOKE #ifdef CONFIG_BOOKE
.globl mcheck_transfer_to_handler .globl mcheck_transfer_to_handler
mcheck_transfer_to_handler: mcheck_transfer_to_handler:
......
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