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Revision 23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33 authored by Paul Mackerras on 21 October 2015, 05:03:14 UTC, committed by Michael Ellerman on 21 October 2015, 09:50:30 UTC
This reverts commit 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") because the original commit had multiple, partly self-cancelling bugs, that could cause occasional memory corruption. In fact the logmpp instruction was incorrectly using register r0 as the source of the buffer address and operation code, and depending on what was in r0, it would either do nothing or corrupt the 64k page pointed to by r0. The logmpp instruction encoding and the operation code definitions could be corrected, but then there is the problem that there is no clearly defined way to know when the hardware has finished writing to the buffer. The original commit attempted to work around this by aborting the write-out before starting the prefetch, but this is ineffective in the case where the virtual core is now executing on a different physical core from the one where the write-out was initiated. These problems plus advice from the hardware designers not to use the function (since the measured performance improvement from using the feature was actually mostly negative), mean that reverting the code is the best option. Fixes: 9678cdaae939 ("Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8") Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Tip revision: 23316316c1af0677a041c81f3ad6efb9dc470b33 authored by Paul Mackerras on 21 October 2015, 05:03:14 UTC
powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
powerpc: Revert "Use the POWER8 Micro Partition Prefetch Engine in KVM HV on POWER8"
Tip revision: 2331631
extable.c
/* Rewritten by Rusty Russell, on the backs of many others...
Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002 Rusty Russell IBM.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/*
* mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching).
* some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock.
*
* NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter.
*/
DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex);
extern struct exception_table_entry __start___ex_table[];
extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
/* Cleared by build time tools if the table is already sorted. */
u32 __initdata __visible main_extable_sort_needed = 1;
/* Sort the kernel's built-in exception table */
void __init sort_main_extable(void)
{
if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) {
pr_notice("Sorting __ex_table...\n");
sort_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table);
}
}
/* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables. */
const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long addr)
{
const struct exception_table_entry *e;
e = search_extable(__start___ex_table, __stop___ex_table-1, addr);
if (!e)
e = search_module_extables(addr);
return e;
}
static inline int init_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext &&
addr < (unsigned long)_einittext)
return 1;
return 0;
}
int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
addr < (unsigned long)_etext)
return 1;
if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING &&
init_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
return 0;
}
/**
* core_kernel_data - tell if addr points to kernel data
* @addr: address to test
*
* Returns true if @addr passed in is from the core kernel data
* section.
*
* Note: On some archs it may return true for core RODATA, and false
* for others. But will always be true for core RW data.
*/
int core_kernel_data(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sdata &&
addr < (unsigned long)_edata)
return 1;
return 0;
}
int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
{
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
if (is_module_text_address(addr))
return 1;
if (is_ftrace_trampoline(addr))
return 1;
/*
* There might be init symbols in saved stacktraces.
* Give those symbols a chance to be printed in
* backtraces (such as lockdep traces).
*
* Since we are after the module-symbols check, there's
* no danger of address overlap:
*/
if (init_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
return 0;
}
int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
{
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
if (is_module_text_address(addr))
return 1;
return is_ftrace_trampoline(addr);
}
/*
* On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers
* are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the
* real function address. As a result, to find if a function
* pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some
* special dereferencing first.
*/
int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr)
{
unsigned long addr;
addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr);
if (core_kernel_text(addr))
return 1;
return is_module_text_address(addr);
}
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