[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mm/radix: Properly clear process table entry

[Michael Ellerman]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On radix, the process table entry we want to clear when
> destroying a context is entry 0, not entry 1

.. but has no real world consequence? Or causes the system to instantly
catch fire?


I'll tag it:

Fixes: 7e381c0ff618 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Add mmu context handling callback for radix")

cheers

> 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);