[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mm/radix: Properly clear process table entry
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jul 8 22:45:32 AEST 2017
On radix, the process table entry we want to clear when
destroying a context is entry 0, not entry 1
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
index 79d8c8a..9404b5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
@@ -226,9 +226,15 @@ void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
mm->context.cop_lockp = NULL;
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX */
- if (radix_enabled())
- process_tb[mm->context.id].prtb1 = 0;
- else
+ if (radix_enabled()) {
+ /*
+ * Radix doesn't have a valid bit in the process table
+ * entries. However we know that at least P9 implementation
+ * will avoid caching an entry with an invalid RTS field,
+ * and 0 is invalid. So this will do.
+ */
+ process_tb[mm->context.id].prtb0 = 0;
+ } else
subpage_prot_free(mm);
destroy_pagetable_page(mm);
__destroy_context(mm->context.id);
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