[PATCH] powerpc: iseries: Fix double phys_to_abs bug in htab_bolt_mapping
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 28 14:54:26 EST 2006
Before the merge I updated create_pte_mapping() to work for iSeries, by
calling iSeries_hpte_bolt_or_insert. (4c55130b2aa93370f1bf52d2304394e91cf8ee39)
Later we changed iSeries_hpte_insert to cope with the bolting case, and called
that instead from create_pte_mapping() (which was renamed to htab_bolt_mapping)
(3c726f8dee6f55e96475574e9f645327e461884c).
Unfortunately that change introduced a subtle bug, where we pass an absolute
address to iSeries_hpte_insert() where it expects a physical address. This
leads to us calling phys_to_abs() twice on the physical address, which is
seriously bogus.
This only causes a problem if the absolute address from the first translation
can be looked up again in the chunk_map, which depends on the size and layout
of memory. I've seen it fail on one box, but not others.
The minimal fix is to pass the physical address to iSeries_hpte_insert(). For
2.6.17 we should make phys_to_abs() BUG if we try to double-translate an
address.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: iseries/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
===================================================================
--- iseries.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
+++ iseries/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_utils_64.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ int htab_bolt_mapping(unsigned long vsta
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
if (_machine == PLATFORM_ISERIES_LPAR)
ret = iSeries_hpte_insert(hpteg, va,
- virt_to_abs(paddr),
+ __pa(vaddr),
tmp_mode,
HPTE_V_BOLTED,
psize);
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