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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-10-12 20:43:47 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-10-14 16:58:36 +1100
commit8d8997f34e66124577db52f6e7ee10ab5f869e07 (patch)
treecfca0e3e7251d1a36b311283772725589822b93d /arch/powerpc
parentaee7a283bb1e7d722f3431e0689c2c281ad0c1f6 (diff)
powerpc/mm: Fix hang accessing top of vmalloc space
On pSeries, we always force the IO space to be mapped using 4K pages even with a 64K base page size to cope with some limitations in the HV interface to some devices. However, the SLB miss handler code to discriminate between vmalloc and ioremap space uses a CPU feature section such that the code is nop'ed out when the processor support large pages non-cachable mappings. Thus, we end up always using the ioremap page size for vmalloc segments on such processors, causing a discrepency between the segment and the hash table, and thus a hang continously hashing the page. It works for the first segment of the vmalloc space since that segment is "bolted" in by C code correctly, and thankfully we almost never use the vmalloc space beyond the first segment, but the new percpu code made the bug happen. This fixes it by removing the feature section from the assembly, we now always do the comparison between vmalloc and ioremap. Signed-off-by; Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
index bc44dc4b5c6..95ce3558169 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/slb_low.S
@@ -72,19 +72,17 @@ _GLOBAL(slb_miss_kernel_load_vmemmap)
1:
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
- /* vmalloc/ioremap mapping encoding bits, the "li" instructions below
- * will be patched by the kernel at boot
+ /* vmalloc mapping gets the encoding from the PACA as the mapping
+ * can be demoted from 64K -> 4K dynamically on some machines
*/
-BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
- /* check whether this is in vmalloc or ioremap space */
clrldi r11,r10,48
cmpldi r11,(VMALLOC_SIZE >> 28) - 1
bgt 5f
lhz r11,PACAVMALLOCSLLP(r13)
b 6f
5:
-END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE)
-_GLOBAL(slb_miss_kernel_load_io)
+ /* IO mapping */
+ _GLOBAL(slb_miss_kernel_load_io)
li r11,0
6:
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION