[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc/book3s: Fix partial invalidation of TLBs in MCE code." has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 7 10:30:06 UTC 2015


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

    powerpc/book3s: Fix partial invalidation of TLBs in MCE code.

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b930e2510c3a1bbf80c1e558e1200f6069f49cdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 10:01:15 +0530
Subject: powerpc/book3s: Fix partial invalidation of TLBs in MCE code.

commit 682e77c861c4c60f79ffbeae5e1938ffed24a575 upstream.

The existing MCE code calls flush_tlb hook with IS=0 (single page) resulting
in partial invalidation of TLBs which is not right. This patch fixes
that by passing IS=0xc00 to invalidate whole TLB for successful recovery
from TLB and ERAT errors.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
index aa9aff3d6ad3..b6f123ab90ed 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static long mce_handle_derror(uint64_t dsisr, uint64_t slb_error_bits)
 	}
 	if (dsisr & P7_DSISR_MC_TLB_MULTIHIT_MFTLB) {
 		if (cur_cpu_spec && cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb)
-			cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb(TLBIEL_INVAL_PAGE);
+			cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb(TLBIEL_INVAL_SET);
 		/* reset error bits */
 		dsisr &= ~P7_DSISR_MC_TLB_MULTIHIT_MFTLB;
 	}
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static long mce_handle_common_ierror(uint64_t srr1)
 		break;
 	case P7_SRR1_MC_IFETCH_TLB_MULTIHIT:
 		if (cur_cpu_spec && cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb) {
-			cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb(TLBIEL_INVAL_PAGE);
+			cur_cpu_spec->flush_tlb(TLBIEL_INVAL_SET);
 			handled = 1;
 		}
 		break;
--
2.1.4





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