linux/arch/powerpc
Michael Neuling 6ce6c629fd powerpc/tm: Abort on emulation and alignment faults
If we are emulating an instruction inside an active user transaction that
touches memory, the kernel can't emulate it as it operates in transactional
suspend context.  We need to abort these transactions and send them back to
userspace for the hardware to rollback.

We can service these if the user transaction is in suspend mode, since the
kernel will operate in the same suspend context.

This adds a check to all alignment faults and to specific instruction
emulations (only string instructions for now).  If the user process is in an
active (non-suspended) transaction, we abort the transaction go back to
userspace allowing the HW to roll back the transaction and tell the user of the
failure.  This also adds new tm abort cause codes to report the reason of the
persistent error to the user.

Crappy test case here http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/aligntm.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-06-01 08:29:22 +10:00
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boot MMC highlights for 3.10: 2013-05-04 13:45:17 -07:00
configs USB: remove remaining instances of USB_SUSPEND 2013-05-15 13:44:44 -04:00
crypto powerpc: Fix compile of sha1-powerpc-asm.S on 32-bit 2013-03-05 16:56:26 +11:00
include powerpc/tm: Abort on emulation and alignment faults 2013-06-01 08:29:22 +10:00
kernel powerpc/tm: Abort on emulation and alignment faults 2013-06-01 08:29:22 +10:00
kvm Merge tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2013-05-05 14:47:31 -07:00
lib uprobes/powerpc: Add dependency on single step emulation 2013-01-29 11:35:06 +11:00
math-emu
mm powerpc: Exception hooks for context tracking subsystem 2013-05-14 16:00:19 +10:00
net filter: bpf_jit_comp: refactor and unify BPF JIT image dump output 2013-03-21 17:25:56 -04:00
oprofile Merge branch 'merge' into next 2013-01-29 11:33:37 +11:00
perf powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB 2013-05-14 16:00:22 +10:00
platforms powerpc/pseries: Make 32-bit MSI quirk work on systems lacking firmware support 2013-05-24 18:16:54 +10:00
sysdev powerpc: Fix irq_set_affinity() return values 2013-05-14 16:00:18 +10:00
xmon Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-05-02 10:16:16 -07:00
Kconfig Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Add an in memory udbg console 2013-05-08 06:36:49 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Avoid load of static chain register when calling nested functions through a pointer on 64bit 2013-01-10 17:01:27 +11:00
relocs_check.pl