From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC, kernel] powerpc/ioda: Set "read" permission when "write" is set
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:18:24 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216031824.E5C8E140761@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452573620-17979-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru>
On Tue, 2016-12-01 at 04:40:20 UTC, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Quite often drivers set only "write" permission assuming that this
> includes "read" permission as well and this works on plenty platforms.
> However IODA2 is strict about this and produces an EEH when "read"
> permission is not and reading happens.
>
> This adds a workaround in IODA code to always add the "read" bit when
> the "write" bit is set.
>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> Tested-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Are you planning on sending a non-RFC version of this?
If so is it an urgent fix I should send upstream now? And if so should it
also be CC'ed to stable?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 4:40 [RFC PATCH kernel] powerpc/ioda: Set "read" permission when "write" is set Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-12 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-01-13 2:24 ` Douglas Miller
2016-01-19 3:52 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-01-19 19:01 ` Douglas Miller
2016-02-09 1:37 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-02-09 14:28 ` Douglas Miller
2016-02-10 0:32 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2016-02-10 12:26 ` Douglas Miller
2016-02-16 3:18 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2016-02-16 13:20 ` [RFC, " Douglas Miller
2016-02-17 7:29 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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