[PATCH] kvm: powerpc: book3s: Disable preemption while accessing paca xics_phys filed

Denis Kirjanov kirjanov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 19:54:01 AEDT 2017


> Can you tell me what actual problem (other than the warning) this is
> fixing?

Since we're running with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_SMP
get_paca defined as:

 #define get_paca()  ((void) debug_smp_processor_id(), local_paca)

instead of direct access to r13 so it's possible that we're preempted
on a different CPU.

> cheers
>


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Regards / Mit besten Grüßen,
Denis


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