[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc/tm: Disable IRQ in tm_recheckpoint" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jun 10 16:37:40 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc/tm: Disable IRQ in tm_recheckpoint

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From db6c1d40d6cb868f1a4e940e4b1cadef7c5e403b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 20:19:48 +1100
Subject: powerpc/tm: Disable IRQ in tm_recheckpoint

commit e6b8fd028b584ffca7a7255b8971f254932c9fce upstream.

We can't take an IRQ when we're about to do a trechkpt as our GPR state is set
to user GPR values.

We've hit this when running some IBM Java stress tests in the lab resulting in
the following dump:

  cpu 0x3f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007eb3d40]
      pc: c000000000050074: restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
      lr: 00000000b52a8184
      sp: ac57d360
     msr: 8000000100201030
    current = 0xc00000002c500000
    paca    = 0xc000000007dbfc00     softe: 0     irq_happened: 0x00
      pid   = 34535, comm = Pooled Thread #
  R00 = 00000000b52a8184   R16 = 00000000b3e48fda
  R01 = 00000000ac57d360   R17 = 00000000ade79bd8
  R02 = 00000000ac586930   R18 = 000000000fac9bcc
  R03 = 00000000ade60000   R19 = 00000000ac57f930
  R04 = 00000000f6624918   R20 = 00000000ade79be8
  R05 = 00000000f663f238   R21 = 00000000ac218a54
  R06 = 0000000000000002   R22 = 000000000f956280
  R07 = 0000000000000008   R23 = 000000000000007e
  R08 = 000000000000000a   R24 = 000000000000000c
  R09 = 00000000b6e69160   R25 = 00000000b424cf00
  R10 = 0000000000000181   R26 = 00000000f66256d4
  R11 = 000000000f365ec0   R27 = 00000000b6fdcdd0
  R12 = 00000000f66400f0   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = 00000000ada71900   R29 = 00000000ade5a300
  R14 = 00000000ac2185a8   R30 = 00000000f663f238
  R15 = 0000000000000004   R31 = 00000000f6624918
  pc  = c000000000050074 restore_gprs+0xc0/0x148
  cfar= c00000000004fe28 dont_restore_vec+0x1c/0x1a4
  lr  = 00000000b52a8184
  msr = 8000000100201030   cr  = 24804888
  ctr = 0000000000000000   xer = 0000000000000000   trap =  700

This moves tm_recheckpoint to a C function and moves the tm_restore_sprs into
that function.  It then adds IRQ disabling over the trechkpt critical section.
It also sets the TEXASR FS in the signals code to ensure this is never set now
that we explictly write the TM sprs in tm_recheckpoint.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: used mikey's backport to 3.10, which picks
  the definition of TEXASR_FS from commit
  e4e38121507a27d2ccc4b28d9e7fc4818a12c44c ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add
  transactional memory support") ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
index fa8388e..637f513 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@
 #define SPRN_ACOP	0x1F	/* Available Coprocessor Register */
 #define SPRN_TFIAR	0x81	/* Transaction Failure Inst Addr   */
 #define SPRN_TEXASR	0x82	/* Transaction EXception & Summary */
+#define   TEXASR_FS	__MASK(63-36)	/* Transaction Failure Summary */
 #define SPRN_TEXASRU	0x83	/* ''	   ''	   ''	 Upper 32  */
 #define SPRN_TFHAR	0x80	/* Transaction Failure Handler Addr */
 #define SPRN_CTRLF	0x088
--
1.9.1





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