[PATCH] powerpc/mm/hash: Don't add memory coherence if cache inhibited is set

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 17 16:02:00 AEST 2016


H_ENTER hcall handling in qemu had assumptions that a cache inhibited
hpte entry won't have memory conference set. Also older kernel
mentioned that some version of pHyp required this (the code removed
by the below commit says:

    /* Make pHyp happy */
    if ((rflags & _PAGE_NO_CACHE) && !(rflags & _PAGE_WRITETHRU))
            hpte_r &= ~HPTE_R_M;

But with older kernel we had some inconsistent memory conherence
mapping. We always enabled memory conherence in the page fault path and
removed memory conherence is _PAGE_NO_CACHE was set when we mapped the
page via htab_bolt_mapping. The commit mentioned below tried to
consolidate that by always enabling memory conherence. But as mentioned
above that breaks Qemu H_ENTER handling.

This patch update this such that we enable memory conherence only if
cache inhibited is not set and bring fault handling, lpar and bolt
mapping in sync.

Fixes: commit 30bda41aba4e("powerpc/mm: Drop WIMG in favour of new constant")

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
index fcf676f7f522..32bf92d2e7ff 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -201,9 +201,8 @@ unsigned long htab_convert_pte_flags(unsigned long pteflags)
 	/*
 	 * We can't allow hardware to update hpte bits. Hence always
 	 * set 'R' bit and set 'C' if it is a write fault
-	 * Memory coherence is always enabled
 	 */
-	rflags |=  HPTE_R_R | HPTE_R_M;
+	rflags |=  HPTE_R_R;
 
 	if (pteflags & _PAGE_DIRTY)
 		rflags |= HPTE_R_C;
@@ -213,10 +212,15 @@ unsigned long htab_convert_pte_flags(unsigned long pteflags)
 
 	if ((pteflags & _PAGE_CACHE_CTL) == _PAGE_TOLERANT)
 		rflags |= HPTE_R_I;
-	if ((pteflags & _PAGE_CACHE_CTL ) == _PAGE_NON_IDEMPOTENT)
+	else if ((pteflags & _PAGE_CACHE_CTL) == _PAGE_NON_IDEMPOTENT)
 		rflags |= (HPTE_R_I | HPTE_R_G);
-	if ((pteflags & _PAGE_CACHE_CTL) == _PAGE_SAO)
-		rflags |= (HPTE_R_I | HPTE_R_W);
+	else if ((pteflags & _PAGE_CACHE_CTL) == _PAGE_SAO)
+		rflags |= (HPTE_R_W | HPTE_R_I | HPTE_R_M);
+	else
+		/*
+		 * Add memory coherence if cache inhibited is not set
+		 */
+		rflags |= HPTE_R_M;
 
 	return rflags;
 }
-- 
2.7.4



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