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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-05 12:39:30 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-05 12:39:30 -0700 |
commit | 7ae77150d94d3b535c7b85e6b3647113095e79bf (patch) | |
tree | 90fe894e7efd92898e813d88acfd4611d79be969 /Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst | |
parent | 084623e468d535d98f883cc2ccf2c4fdf2108556 (diff) | |
parent | 1395375c592770fe5158a592944aaeed67fa94ff (diff) |
Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP
accelerator on Power9.
- Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to
make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without
relying on an IPI for serialisation.
- A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling
more robust.
- Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions
on Power10.
- Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit).
- Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound
driver.
- Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft.
- Initial support for booting on Power10.
- Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan,
Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent
Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe
JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F.,
Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A.
R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan
Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal
Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai,
Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher
Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler,
Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang.
* tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific
cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options
powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions
powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected
powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1
powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits
powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD
powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init
powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR
powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR()
powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG
powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel
powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations
powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code
powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32
powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst index 09955103acb4..b5b09bf00966 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst @@ -245,3 +245,30 @@ POWER9N DD2.2. Guest migration from POWER8 to POWER9 will work with POWER9N DD2.2 and POWER9C DD1.2. Since earlier POWER9 processors don't support TM emulation, migration from POWER8 to POWER9 is not supported there. + +Kernel implementation +===================== + +h/rfid mtmsrd quirk +------------------- + +As defined in the ISA, rfid has a quirk which is useful in early +exception handling. When in a userspace transaction and we enter the +kernel via some exception, MSR will end up as TM=0 and TS=01 (ie. TM +off but TM suspended). Regularly the kernel will want change bits in +the MSR and will perform an rfid to do this. In this case rfid can +have SRR0 TM = 0 and TS = 00 (ie. TM off and non transaction) and the +resulting MSR will retain TM = 0 and TS=01 from before (ie. stay in +suspend). This is a quirk in the architecture as this would normally +be a transition from TS=01 to TS=00 (ie. suspend -> non transactional) +which is an illegal transition. + +This quirk is described the architecture in the definition of rfid +with these lines: + + if (MSR 29:31 ¬ = 0b010 | SRR1 29:31 ¬ = 0b000) then + MSR 29:31 <- SRR1 29:31 + +hrfid and mtmsrd have the same quirk. + +The Linux kernel uses this quirk in it's early exception handling. |