3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6ce6c629fd8254b3177650de99699682ff7f6707 upstream. If we are emulating an instruction inside an active user transaction that touches memory, the kernel can't emulate it as it operates in transactional suspend context. We need to abort these transactions and send them back to userspace for the hardware to rollback. We can service these if the user transaction is in suspend mode, since the kernel will operate in the same suspend context. This adds a check to all alignment faults and to specific instruction emulations (only string instructions for now). If the user process is in an active (non-suspended) transaction, we abort the transaction go back to userspace allowing the HW to roll back the transaction and tell the user of the failure. This also adds new tm abort cause codes to report the reason of the persistent error to the user. Crappy test case here http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/aligntm.c Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt | 7 ++++-- arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt @@ -180,9 +180,12 @@ kernel aborted a transaction: transactions for consistency will use this. TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered. TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused. + TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault. + TM_CAUSE_EMULATE Emulation that touched memory. -These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. - +These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If +bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example +a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.q GDB === --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ #define TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL 0xd8 /* future use */ #define TM_CAUSE_MISC 0xd6 /* future use */ #define TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL 0xd4 +#define TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT 0xd2 +#define TM_CAUSE_EMULATE 0xd0 #if defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64) #define MSR_64BIT MSR_SF --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 #include <asm/firmware.h> #include <asm/processor.h> +#include <asm/tm.h> #endif #include <asm/kexec.h> #include <asm/ppc-opcode.h> @@ -913,6 +914,28 @@ static int emulate_isel(struct pt_regs * return 0; } +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM +static inline bool tm_abort_check(struct pt_regs *regs, int cause) +{ + /* If we're emulating a load/store in an active transaction, we cannot + * emulate it as the kernel operates in transaction suspended context. + * We need to abort the transaction. This creates a persistent TM + * abort so tell the user what caused it with a new code. + */ + if (MSR_TM_TRANSACTIONAL(regs->msr)) { + tm_enable(); + tm_abort(cause); + return true; + } + return false; +} +#else +static inline bool tm_abort_check(struct pt_regs *regs, int reason) +{ + return false; +} +#endif + static int emulate_instruction(struct pt_regs *regs) { u32 instword; @@ -952,6 +975,9 @@ static int emulate_instruction(struct pt /* Emulate load/store string insn. */ if ((instword & PPC_INST_STRING_GEN_MASK) == PPC_INST_STRING) { + if (tm_abort_check(regs, + TM_CAUSE_EMULATE | TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT)) + return -EINVAL; PPC_WARN_EMULATED(string, regs); return emulate_string_inst(regs, instword); } @@ -1124,6 +1150,9 @@ void alignment_exception(struct pt_regs if (!arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs)) local_irq_enable(); + if (tm_abort_check(regs, TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT | TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT)) + goto bail; + /* we don't implement logging of alignment exceptions */ if (!(current->thread.align_ctl & PR_UNALIGN_SIGBUS)) fixed = fix_alignment(regs); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html