From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: Chris Smart <chris@distroguy.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for userspace P9 copy paste
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:45:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571F1CA5.9020208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160426002844.GA9198@x1.distroguy.com>
> /*
> * System calls.
> @@ -508,6 +509,14 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> ldarx r6,0,r1
> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_STCX_CHECKS_ADDRESS)
>
> +BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
> +/*
> + * A cp_abort (copy paste abort) here ensures that when context switching, a
> + * copy from one process can't leak into the paste of another.
> + */
> + PPC_CP_ABORT
I think the alignment issue has been called out, but it is not clear from the changelog that
we do this during syscall_exit/syscalls.
And also, do we need to care about preemptions, etc by the scheduler?
> +END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_300)
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
> /* Cancel all explict user streams as they will have no use after context
> * switch and will stop the HW from creating streams itself
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-26 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-26 0:28 [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for userspace P9 copy paste Chris Smart
2016-04-26 6:42 ` Cyril Bur
2016-04-26 6:49 ` Chris Smart
2016-04-26 7:45 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2016-04-27 2:05 ` Michael Neuling
2016-04-27 15:25 ` David Laight
2016-04-27 23:51 ` Chris Smart
2016-04-28 14:48 ` David Laight
2016-04-28 14:22 ` Michael Ellerman
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