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2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Florian Weimer
e627106266 POWER: Add context-synchronizing instructions to pkey_write [BZ #25954]
Sandipan Das reported that,

"The Power ISA mandates that all writes to the Authority
Mask Register (AMR) must always be preceded as well as
succeeded by a context-synchronizing instruction. This
applies to both the privileged and unprivileged variants
of the Move To AMR instruction.

This [requirement] is from Table 6 of Chapter 11 in page 1134 of Power
ISA 3.0B. The document can be found here:
<https://ibm.ent.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv>
"

See this kernel patch submission:

<https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/5f65cf37be993760de8112a88da194e3ccbb2bf8.1588959697.git.sandipan@linux.ibm.com/>
2020-05-11 16:11:47 +02:00
Florian Weimer
a803367bab powerpc64: Add memory protection key support [BZ #23202]
The 32-bit protection key behavior is somewhat unclear on 32-bit powerpc,
so this change is restricted to the 64-bit variants.

Flag translation is needed because of hardware differences between the
POWER implementation (read and write flags) and the Intel implementation
(write and read+write flags).
2020-02-14 20:55:39 +01:00