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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-06-08 10:58:58 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-07-14 14:13:51 +1000
commitff82c319e6327b12cd94c5c57754abff243ab3e4 (patch)
tree9545c320549d37f6f9bf99b6ea3eacd6e549706a /arch/powerpc/mm
parent34d97e07cc81ab6f1e63696127cc7a5d2c4fce4b (diff)
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powerpc/book3e: Fix single step when using HW page tables
We patch the TLB miss exception vectors to point to alternate functions when using HW page table on BookE. However, we were patching in a new branch in the first instruction of the exception handler instead of the second one, thus overriding the nop that is in the first instruction. This cause problems when single stepping as we rely on that nop for the single step to stop properly within the exception vector range rather than on the target of the branch. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
index e81d5d67f834..2ce42bf1f67e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
@@ -391,10 +391,15 @@ static void __early_init_mmu(int boot_cpu)
/* Check if HW loader is supported */
if ((tlb0cfg & TLBnCFG_IND) &&
(tlb0cfg & TLBnCFG_PT)) {
- patch_branch(ibase + (0x1c0 / 4),
- (unsigned long)&exc_data_tlb_miss_htw_book3e, 0);
- patch_branch(ibase + (0x1e0 / 4),
- (unsigned long)&exc_instruction_tlb_miss_htw_book3e, 0);
+ /* Our exceptions vectors start with a NOP and -then- a branch
+ * to deal with single stepping from userspace which stops on
+ * the second instruction. Thus we need to patch the second
+ * instruction of the exception, not the first one
+ */
+ patch_branch(ibase + (0x1c0 / 4) + 1,
+ (unsigned long)&exc_data_tlb_miss_htw_book3e, 0);
+ patch_branch(ibase + (0x1e0 / 4) + 1,
+ (unsigned long)&exc_instruction_tlb_miss_htw_book3e, 0);
book3e_htw_enabled = 1;
}
pr_info("MMU: Book3E Page Tables %s\n",