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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2018-02-08 19:18:38 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-02-13 22:37:46 +1100
commitb00b62898631b756c3e123542bbb0487aa343dd9 (patch)
tree524da2a6bbde3c518a8c7ebd4dcdd72f2a211a2d /arch/powerpc
parentpowerpc/pseries: Enable RAS hotplug events later (diff)
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powerpc/vas: Don't set uses_vas for kernel windows
cp_abort is only required for user windows, because kernel context must not be preempted between a copy/paste pair. Without this patch, the init task gets used_vas set when it runs the nx842_powernv_init initcall, which opens windows for kernel usage. used_vas is then never cleared anywhere, so it gets propagated into all other tasks. It's a property of the address space, so it should really be cleared when a new mm is created (or in dup_mmap if the mmaps are marked as VM_DONTCOPY). For now we seem to have no such driver, so leave that for another patch. Fixes: 6c8e6bb2a52d ("powerpc/vas: Add support for user receive window") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+ Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
index 2b3eb01ab110..b7c53a51c31b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c
@@ -1063,16 +1063,16 @@ struct vas_window *vas_tx_win_open(int vasid, enum vas_cop_type cop,
rc = PTR_ERR(txwin->paste_kaddr);
goto free_window;
}
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * A user mapping must ensure that context switch issues
+ * CP_ABORT for this thread.
+ */
+ rc = set_thread_uses_vas();
+ if (rc)
+ goto free_window;
}
- /*
- * Now that we have a send window, ensure context switch issues
- * CP_ABORT for this thread.
- */
- rc = -EINVAL;
- if (set_thread_uses_vas() < 0)
- goto free_window;
-
set_vinst_win(vinst, txwin);
return txwin;