Re: [RFC v2 10/12] powerpc: Read AMR only if pkey-violation caused the exception.

From: Ram Pai
Date: Tue Jun 20 2017 - 19:57:27 EST


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:06:13PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 16 ++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > index 8db9ef8..a4de1b4 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
> > @@ -493,13 +493,15 @@ EXC_COMMON_BEGIN(data_access_common)
> > ld r12,_MSR(r1)
> > ld r3,PACA_EXGEN+EX_DAR(r13)
> > lwz r4,PACA_EXGEN+EX_DSISR(r13)
> > + std r3,_DAR(r1)
> > + std r4,_DSISR(r1)
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS
> > + andis. r0,r4,DSISR_KEYFAULT@h /* save AMR only if its a key fault */
> > + beq+ 1f
>
> This seems to be incremental on top of one of your other patches.
>
> But I don't see why, can you please just squash this into whatever patch
> adds this code in the first place.

Yes. squash it is.

next version of my patch will have it squashed.
RP