[1/2] powerpc: tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 5 13:36:24 AEDT 2016


On Wed, 2016-14-09 at 08:02:15 UTC, Cyril Bur wrote:
> If the kernel disables transactional memory (TM) and userspace still
> tries TM related actions (TM instructions or TM SPR accesses) TM aware
> hardware will cause the kernel to take a facility unavailable
> exception.
> 
> Add checks for the exception being caused by illegal TM access in
> userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/172f7aaa75d0eaae167edde25c08aa

cheers


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