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Balbir Singh e71ff982ae powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp()
Once upon a time there were only two PP (page protection) bits. In ISA
2.03 an additional PP bit was added, but because of the layout of the
HPTE it could not be made contiguous with the existing PP bits.

The result is that we now have three PP bits, named pp0, pp1, pp2,
where pp0 occupies bit 63 of dword 1 of the HPTE and pp1 and pp2
occupy bits 1 and 0 respectively. Until recently Linux hasn't used
pp0, however with the addition of _PAGE_KERNEL_RO we started using it.

The problem arises in the LPAR code, where we need to translate the PP
bits into the argument for the H_PROTECT hypercall. Currently the code
only passes bits 0-2 of newpp, which covers pp1, pp2 and N (no
execute), meaning pp0 is not passed to the hypervisor at all.

We can't simply pass it through in bit 63, as that would collide with a
different field in the flags argument, as defined in PAPR. Instead we
have to shift it down to bit 8 (IBM bit 55).

Fixes: e58e87adc8 ("powerpc/mm: Update _PAGE_KERNEL_RO")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
[mpe: Simplify the test, rework change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-07-03 23:12:19 +10:00
Documentation Merge branch 'fixes' into next 2017-07-03 23:05:43 +10:00
arch powerpc/pseries: Fix passing of pp0 in updatepp() and updateboltedpp() 2017-07-03 23:12:19 +10:00
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drivers cxl: Export library to support IBM XSL 2017-07-03 23:07:03 +10:00
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lib test_bpf: Add a couple of tests for BPF_JSGE. 2017-05-25 14:37:56 -04:00
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sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc3 2017-05-26 09:03:09 -07:00
tools selftests/powerpc: context_switch use private futexes with threads 2017-06-05 16:55:01 +10:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.