From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:35:21 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42drwT6w8bz9sDC@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180724055322.27720-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 05:53:22 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> This tests that a bctr (Branch to counter and link), ie. a function
> call, to a wildly out-of-bounds address is handled correctly.
>
> Some old kernel versions didn't handle it correctly, see eg:
>
> "powerpc/slb: Force a full SLB flush when we insert for a bad EA"
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/157397.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b7683fc66eba91674e52c30f4d8e59
cheers
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2018-07-24 5:53 [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr Michael Ellerman
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