[PATCH v3] powerpc/watchpoint: Workaround P10 DD1 issue with VSX-32 byte instructions

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Dec 15 21:49:06 AEDT 2020


On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 10:26:50 +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> POWER10 DD1 has an issue where it generates watchpoint exceptions when
> it shouldn't. The conditions where this occur are:
> 
>  - octword op
>  - ending address of DAWR range is less than starting address of op
>  - those addresses need to be in the same or in two consecutive 512B
>    blocks
>  - 'op address + 64B' generates an address that has a carry into bit
>    52 (crosses 2K boundary)
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/watchpoint: Workaround P10 DD1 issue with VSX-32 byte instructions
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3d2ffcdd2a982e8bbe65fa0f94fb21bf304c281e

cheers


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