powerpc/64s/radix: Fix radix segment exception handling

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Apr 11 00:49:53 AEST 2019


On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 07:42:57 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Commit 48e7b76957 ("powerpc/64s/hash: Convert SLB miss handlers to C")
> broke the radix-mode segment exception handler. In radix mode, this is
> exception is not an SLB miss, rather it signals that the EA is outside
> the range translated by any page table.
> 
> The commit lost the radix feature alternate code patch, which can
> cause faults to some EAs to kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c:639!
> 
> The original radix code would send faults to slb_miss_large_addr,
> which would end up faulting due to slb_addr_limit being 0. This patch
> sends radix directly to do_bad_slb_fault, which is a bit clearer.
> 
> Fixes: 48e7b76957 ("powerpc/64s/hash: Convert SLB miss handlers to C")
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7100e8704b61247649c50551b965e71d

cheers


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