History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/lib/restart_table.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 325678fd 30-Jun-2021 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64s: add a table of implicit soft-masked addresses

Commit 9d1988ca87dd ("powerpc/64: treat low kernel text as irqs
soft-masked") ends up catching too much code, including ret_from_fork,
and parts of interrupt and syscall return that do not expect to be
interrupts to be soft-masked. If an interrupt gets marked pending,
and then the code proceeds out of the implicit soft-masked region it
will fail to deal with the pending interrupt.

Fix this by adding a new table of addresses which explicitly marks
the regions of code that are soft masked. This table is only checked
for interrupts that below __end_soft_masked, so most kernel interrupts
will not have the overhead of the table search.

Fixes: 9d1988ca87dd ("powerpc/64: treat low kernel text as irqs soft-masked")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210630074621.2109197-5-npiggin@gmail.com


# f23699c9 17-Jun-2021 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64: allow alternate return locations for soft-masked interrupts

The exception table fixup adjusts a failed page fault's interrupt return
location if it was taken at an address specified in the exception table,
to a corresponding fixup handler address.

Introduce a variation of that idea which adds a fixup table for NMIs and
soft-masked asynchronous interrupts. This will be used to protect
certain critical sections that are sensitive to being clobbered by
interrupts coming in (due to using the same SPRs and/or irq soft-mask
state).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-10-npiggin@gmail.com