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authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-08-23 15:20:10 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-08-23 15:20:10 +0300
commit15c659ff9d5b367c886166a9854a89b72c524a68 (patch)
treed33acaf62889bf6304f6109dd69923a17ab938be /arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
parent516fa8d0e19d854253460ea7692551e836e7e2b5 (diff)
parent1a92a80ad386a1a6e3b36d576d52a1a456394b70 (diff)
downloadlinux-15c659ff9d5b367c886166a9854a89b72c524a68.tar.xz
Merge branch 'fixes' into next
There's a non-trivial dependency between some commits we want to put in next and the KVM prefetch work around that went into fixes. So merge fixes into next.
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
index a42308b2187b..e66cbb1c6bc2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
@@ -1325,10 +1325,18 @@ EXC_VIRT_NONE(0x5800, 0x100)
std r10,PACA_EXGEN+EX_R13(r13); \
EXCEPTION_PROLOG_PSERIES_1(soft_nmi_common, _H)
+/*
+ * Branch to soft_nmi_interrupt using the emergency stack. The emergency
+ * stack is one that is usable by maskable interrupts so long as MSR_EE
+ * remains off. It is used for recovery when something has corrupted the
+ * normal kernel stack, for example. The "soft NMI" must not use the process
+ * stack because we want irq disabled sections to avoid touching the stack
+ * at all (other than PMU interrupts), so use the emergency stack for this,
+ * and run it entirely with interrupts hard disabled.
+ */
EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(soft_nmi_common)
mr r10,r1
ld r1,PACAEMERGSP(r13)
- ld r1,PACA_NMI_EMERG_SP(r13)
subi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE
EXCEPTION_COMMON_NORET_STACK(PACA_EXGEN, 0x900,
system_reset, soft_nmi_interrupt,