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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:25:08 +1000 (AEST)
From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, libc-dev@...ts.llvm.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64s/exception: treat NIA below __end_interrupts as soft-masked
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:12:02 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The scv instruction causes an interrupt which can enter the kernel with
> MSR[EE]=1, thus allowing interrupts to hit at any time. These must not
> be taken as normal interrupts, because they come from MSR[PR]=0 context,
> and yet the kernel stack is not yet set up and r13 is not set to the
> PACA).
>
> Treat this as a soft-masked interrupt regardless of the soft masked
> state. This does not affect behaviour yet, because currently all
> interrupts are taken with MSR[EE]=0.
Applied to powerpc/next.
[1/2] powerpc/64s/exception: treat NIA below __end_interrupts as soft-masked
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b2dc2977cba48990df45e0a96150663d4f342700
[2/2] powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7fa95f9adaee7e5cbb195d3359741120829e488b
cheers
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