We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and memory memory corruption on SMP machines. The causes quite a few package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc. When gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB related code again. I found a couple of issues. This is the first. In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TBL purges are atomic. The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock. Tested on rp3440 and c8000. So far, no further random segmentation faults have been observed. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c index 02d9ed0..494ff6e 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/pci-dma.c @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ static inline int map_pte_uncached(pte_t * pte, if (!pte_none(*pte)) printk(KERN_ERR "map_pte_uncached: page already exists\n"); - set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC)); purge_tlb_start(flags); + set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC)); pdtlb_kernel(orig_vaddr); purge_tlb_end(flags); vaddr += PAGE_SIZE;
-- John David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx
