[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Invalidate partition table cache on host proc tbl base update
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Aug 9 20:30:13 AEST 2017
Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com> writes:
> The host process table base is stored in the partition table by calling
> the function native_register_process_table(). Currently this just sets
> the entry in memory and is missing a proceeding cache invalidation
> instruction. Any update to the partition table should be followed by a
> cache invalidation instruction specifying invalidation of the caching of
> any partition table entries (RIC = 2, PRS = 0).
>
> We already have a function to update the partition table with the
> required cache invalidation instructions - mmu_partition_table_set_entry().
> Update the native_register_process_table() function to call
> mmu_partition_table_set_entry(), this ensures all appropriate
> invalidation will be performed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh at gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> index 671a45d..1d5178f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ static int native_register_process_table(unsigned long base, unsigned long pg_sz
> {
> unsigned long patb1 = base | table_size | PATB_GR;
>
> - partition_tb->patb1 = cpu_to_be64(patb1);
> + mmu_partition_table_set_entry(0, be64_to_cpu(partition_tb->patb0),
> + patb1);
This is really a bit gross.
Can we agree on whether partition_tb is an array or not?
How about ...
cheers
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
index c1185c8ecb22..5d8be076f8e5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-radix.c
@@ -28,9 +28,13 @@
static int native_register_process_table(unsigned long base, unsigned long pg_sz,
unsigned long table_size)
{
- unsigned long patb1 = base | table_size | PATB_GR;
+ unsigned long patb0, patb1;
+
+ patb0 = be64_to_cpu(partition_tb[0].patb0);
+ patb1 = base | table_size | PATB_GR;
+
+ mmu_partition_table_set_entry(0, patb0, patb1);
- partition_tb->patb1 = cpu_to_be64(patb1);
return 0;
}
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