[PATCH] ppc32: Wrong vaddr in flush_hash_one_pte()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at au1.ibm.com
Wed Feb 23 19:02:09 EST 2005


Hi !

Reworking the ppc32 mm helps me find interesting bugs in the existing bug,
well, brown paper bag for me, I made this one a while ago. The routine
flush_hash_one_pte() used by ptep_test_and_clear_young() wasn't properly
recaclulating the vaddr from the pte pointer & page->index. This fixes
it. The result is that we probably never flushed things from the hash,
so that's at least the _second_ bug affecting ptep_test_and_clear_young(),
swap on ppc32 must have been really broken :(

Please, apply to 2.6.11...

(I hope by early 2.6.12, we'll have David's patch that removes the need for
those hacks though, and just pass us the vaddr (and mm or vma) to all the
PTE accessors...)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

Index: linux-work/arch/ppc/mm/tlb.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/ppc/mm/tlb.c	2005-01-24 17:09:23.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/arch/ppc/mm/tlb.c	2005-02-23 18:53:49.000000000 +1100
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	ptepage = virt_to_page(ptep);
 	mm = (struct mm_struct *) ptepage->mapping;
 	ptephys = __pa(ptep) & PAGE_MASK;
-	addr = ptepage->index + (((unsigned long)ptep & ~PAGE_MASK) << 9);
+	addr = ptepage->index + (((unsigned long)ptep & ~PAGE_MASK) << 10);
 	flush_hash_pages(mm->context, addr, ptephys, 1);
 }
 






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