[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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