On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:11:13PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> POWER9 has hardware bugs relating to transactional memory and thread
> reconfiguration (changes to hardware SMT mode). Specifically, the core
> does not have enough storage to store a complete checkpoint of all the
> architected sta
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:09:24PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This adds a CPU feature bit which is set for POWER9 DD2.2 processors
> which will be used to enable software emulation for some transactional
> memory instructions, in order to work around hardware bugs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mack
According to drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c, the kernel module may sleep
under a spinlock.
The function call path is:
xen_pv_console_init (acquire the spinlock)
xencons_info_pv_init
gfn_to_virt (gfn_to_pfn) --> may sleep
I do not find a good way to fix it, so I only report.
This possible bug is
On Friday, 8 December 2017 6:41:02 PM AEDT Ivan Mikhaylov wrote:
> add irq error handlers for cmu, plb, opb, mcue, conf
> with debug information output in case of problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov
Acked-by: Alistair Popple
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/fsp2.c | 198
>
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:20:40PM +, Horia Geantă wrote:
> On 10/12/2017 6:20 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:04:31PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >> This serie fixes and improves the talitos crypto driver.
> >>
> >> First 6 patchs are fixes of failures reported by the
On 24.11.17 00:33, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:42:21 +1100
> Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
>> 96df226 "KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Preserve storage control bits" added WIMG
>> bits preserving but it missed 2 special cases:
>> - a magic page in kvmppc_mmu_book3s_64_xlate() and
>> - guest
