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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2013-02-13 16:21:40 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-02-15 17:02:23 +1100
commitbc2a9408fa65195288b41751016c36fd00a75a85 (patch)
tree4261aaddc1382981e9d566699a2f03a816c89ae7 /arch/powerpc/mm
parentf54db641b9bbca91b071128e4d71f0f6af9a3c25 (diff)
powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
This hooks the new transactional memory code into context switching, FP/VMX/VMX unavailable and exception return. Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index 3a292be2e07..1b6e1271719 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
#include <asm/code-patching.h>
#include <asm/fadump.h>
#include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/tm.h>
#ifdef DEBUG
#define DBG(fmt...) udbg_printf(fmt)
@@ -1171,6 +1172,21 @@ void flush_hash_page(unsigned long vpn, real_pte_t pte, int psize, int ssize,
DBG_LOW(" sub %ld: hash=%lx, hidx=%lx\n", index, slot, hidx);
ppc_md.hpte_invalidate(slot, vpn, psize, ssize, local);
} pte_iterate_hashed_end();
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+ /* Transactions are not aborted by tlbiel, only tlbie.
+ * Without, syncing a page back to a block device w/ PIO could pick up
+ * transactional data (bad!) so we force an abort here. Before the
+ * sync the page will be made read-only, which will flush_hash_page.
+ * BIG ISSUE here: if the kernel uses a page from userspace without
+ * unmapping it first, it may see the speculated version.
+ */
+ if (local && cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM) &&
+ MSR_TM_ACTIVE(current->thread.regs->msr)) {
+ tm_enable();
+ tm_abort(TM_CAUSE_TLBI);
+ }
+#endif
}
void flush_hash_range(unsigned long number, int local)