On Mon, 2017-08-14 at 21:16 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > We need the SPRN_TIDR to bet set for use with fast thread-wakeup
> > (core-to-core wakeup). Each thread in a process needs to have a
> > unique id within the process but as explained below, for now, we
> > assign globally unique thread ids to all threads in the system.
>
> Each thread in a process already has a unique id, ie. its pid (in the
> init PID namespace), accessible in the kernel as task_pid_nr(task).
>
> So if that's all we need, we don't need a new allocator, and we don't
> need to store it in the thread_struct.
We need an allocator, I think, due to size restriction on the HW TID.
> Also 99.99% of processes aren't going to care about the TIDR, so we
> should avoid setting it in the common case. ie. it should start out zero
> and only be initialised in the FTW code, or a helper that it calls.
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > index 9f3e2c9..6123859 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > @@ -1213,6 +1213,16 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct
> > *prev,
> > hard_irq_disable();
> > }
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_VAS
> > + mtspr(SPRN_TIDR, new->thread.tidr);
> > +#endif
>
> That should be in restore_sprs().
>
> It should also check that the TIDR is initialised, and only switch it
> when necessary.
>
> > + /*
> > + * We can't take a PMU exception inside _switch() since there is a
> > + * window where the kernel stack SLB and the kernel stack are out
> > + * of sync. Hard disable here.
> > + */
> > + hard_irq_disable();
>
> We removed that in June in:
>
> e4c0fc5f72bc ("powerpc/64s: Leave interrupts hard enabled in context switch
> for radix")
>
> You've obviously picked it up somewhere along the line during a rebase,
> please be more careful!
>
> cheers
