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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-07-01 11:16:54 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-07-01 11:18:53 +0200 |
commit | 2fd1b487884310d0aa0c0640179dc7490ad86313 (patch) | |
tree | 1083dce15bd7dc0858c3883b8a361242046c5e09 /Documentation/powerpc | |
parent | sched/debug: Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED mask (diff) | |
parent | Linux 3.10 (diff) | |
download | linux-2fd1b487884310d0aa0c0640179dc7490ad86313.tar.xz linux-2fd1b487884310d0aa0c0640179dc7490ad86313.zip |
Merge tag 'v3.10' into sched/core
Merge in a recent upstream commit:
c2853c8df57f include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul()
because:
72a4cf20cb71 sched: Change cfs_rq load avg to unsigned long
relies on it.
[ We don't rebase sched/core for this, because the handful of
followup commits after the broken commit are not behavioral
changes so are unlikely to be needed during bisection. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt index c907be41d60f..dc23e58ae264 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt @@ -147,6 +147,25 @@ Example signal handler: fix_the_problem(ucp->dar); } +When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with +the stack. It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin. +The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that +returns before a tend. In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed +transactional memory state. If we write over this non transactionally or in +suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter and +stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be valid +anymore. + +To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use +the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated +state. This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be +written below the stack required for the rollback. The transaction is aborted +becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the +signal will be rolled back anyway. + +For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the +normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer. + Failure cause codes used by kernel ================================== @@ -155,14 +174,18 @@ These are defined in <asm/reg.h>, and distinguish different reasons why the kernel aborted a transaction: TM_CAUSE_RESCHED Thread was rescheduled. + TM_CAUSE_TLBI Software TLB invalide. TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV FP/VEC/VSX unavailable trap. TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL Currently unused; future syscalls that must abort transactions for consistency will use this. TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered. TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused. + TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault. + TM_CAUSE_EMULATE Emulation that touched memory. -These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. - +These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If +bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example +a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.q GDB === |