powerpc/mm/hash: hard disable irq in the SLB insert path
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jun 5 00:11:29 AEST 2018
On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 08:24:02 UTC, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote:
> When inserting SLB entries for EA above 512TB, we need to hard disable irq.
> This will make sure we don't take a PMU interrupt that can possibly touch
> user space address via a stack dump. To prevent this, we need to hard disable
> the interrupt.
>
> Also add a comment explaining why we don't need context synchronizing isync
> with slbmte.
>
> Fixes: f384796c4 ("powerpc/mm: Add support for handling > 512TB address in SLB miss")
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a5db5060e0b2e27605df272224bfd4
cheers
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