[PATCH] powerpc/tm: Don't check for WARN in TM Bad Thing handling

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Oct 12 15:45:25 AEDT 2017


Currently when we take a TM Bad Thing program check exception, we
search the bug table to see if the program check was generated by a
WARN/WARN_ON etc.

That makes no sense, the WARN macros use trap instructions, which
should never generate a TM Bad Thing exception. If they ever did that
would be a bug and we should oops.

We do have some hand-coded bugs in tm.S, using EMIT_BUG_ENTRY, but
those are all BUGs not WARNs, and they all use trap instructions
anyway. Almost certainly this check was incorrectly copied from the
REASON_TRAP handling in the same function.

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 9ae1924c7d1a..0e4099fef198 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1337,13 +1337,8 @@ void program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		 * -  A treclaim is attempted when non transactional.
 		 * -  A tend is illegally attempted.
 		 * -  writing a TM SPR when transactional.
-		 */
-		if (!user_mode(regs) &&
-		    report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
-			regs->nip += 4;
-			goto bail;
-		}
-		/* If usermode caused this, it's done something illegal and
+		 *
+		 * If usermode caused this, it's done something illegal and
 		 * gets a SIGILL slap on the wrist.  We call it an illegal
 		 * operand to distinguish from the instruction just being bad
 		 * (e.g. executing a 'tend' on a CPU without TM!); it's an
-- 
2.7.4



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