From 44387e9ff25267c78a99229aca55ed750e9174c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:27:09 +1100 Subject: [POWERPC] Fix PMU + soft interrupt disable bug Since the PMU is an NMI now, it can come at any time we are only soft disabled. We must hard disable around the two places we allow the kernel stack SLB and r1 to go out of sync. Otherwise the PMU exception can force a kernel stack SLB into another slot, which can lead to it getting evicted, which can lead to a nasty unrecoverable SLB miss in the exception entry code. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c index 4846bf543a8..59311ec0d42 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c @@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev, account_process_vtime(current); calculate_steal_time(); + /* + * We can't take a PMU exception inside _switch() since there is a + * window where the kernel stack SLB and the kernel stack are out + * of sync. Hard disable here. + */ + hard_irq_disable(); last = _switch(old_thread, new_thread); local_irq_restore(flags); -- cgit v1.2.3