[PATCH 2/2] selftests: vm: pkeys: Fix powerpc access right updates
Florian Weimer
fweimer at redhat.com
Sat May 9 06:03:20 AEST 2020
* Sandipan Das:
> Hi Florian,
>
> On 08/05/20 11:31 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Sandipan Das:
>>
>>> The Power ISA mandates that all writes to the Authority
>>> Mask Register (AMR) must always be preceded as well as
>>> succeeded by a context-synchronizing instruction. This
>>> applies to both the privileged and unprivileged variants
>>> of the Move To AMR instruction.
>>
>> Ugh. Do you have a reference for that?
>>
>> We need to fix this in glibc.
>>
>
> This is from Table 6 of Chapter 11 in page 1134 of Power
> ISA 3.0B. The document can be found here:
> https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv
Thanks a lot! I filed:
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25954>
Florian
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