[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/64s/hash: Fix stab_rr off by one initialization

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 02:57:29 AEST 2018


This causes SLB alloation to start 1 beyond the start of the SLB.
There is no real problem because after it wraps it stats behaving
properly, it's just surprisig to see when looking at SLB traces.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index 9f574e59d178..2f162c6e52d4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void slb_initialize(void)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	get_paca()->stab_rr = SLB_NUM_BOLTED;
+	get_paca()->stab_rr = SLB_NUM_BOLTED - 1;
 
 	lflags = SLB_VSID_KERNEL | linear_llp;
 	vflags = SLB_VSID_KERNEL | vmalloc_llp;
-- 
2.18.0



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