[PATCH] powerpc/64s/hash: Fix assert_slb_presence() use of the slbfee. instruction

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 21:20:20 AEDT 2019


The slbfee. instruction must have bit 24 of RB clear, failure to do
so can result in false negatives that result in incorrect assertions.

This is not obvious from the ISA v3.0B document, which only says:

    The hardware ignores the contents of RB 36:38 40:63 -- p.1032

This patch fixes the bug and also clears all other bits from PPC bit
36-63, which is good practice when dealing with reserved or ignored
bits.

Fixes: e15a4fea4d ("powerpc/64s/hash: Add some SLB debugging tests")
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
index bc3914d54e26..5986df48359b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb.c
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ static void assert_slb_presence(bool present, unsigned long ea)
 	if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * slbfee. requires bit 24 (PPC bit 39) be clear in RB. Hardware
+	 * ignores all other bits from 0-27, so just clear them all.
+	 */
+	ea &= ~((1UL << 28) - 1);
 	asm volatile(__PPC_SLBFEE_DOT(%0, %1) : "=r"(tmp) : "r"(ea) : "cr0");
 
 	WARN_ON(present == (tmp == 0));
-- 
2.18.0



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