MIPS: HTW: Prevent accidental HTW start due to nested htw_{start, stop}

activate_mm() and switch_mm() call get_new_mmu_context() which in turn
can enable the HTW before the entryhi is changed with the new ASID.
Since the latter will enable the HTW in local_flush_tlb_all(),
then there is a small timing window where the HTW is running with the
new ASID but with an old pgd since the TLBMISS_HANDLER_SETUP_PGD
hasn't assigned a new one yet. In order to prevent that, we introduce a
simple htw counter to avoid starting HTW accidentally due to nested
htw_{start,stop}() sequences. Moreover, since various IPI calls can
enforce TLB flushing operations on a different core, such an operation
may interrupt another htw_{stop,start} in progress leading inconsistent
updates of the htw_seq variable. In order to avoid that, we disable the
interrupts whenever we update that variable.

Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17+
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9118/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-info.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-info.h
index a6c9ccb33c5c..c3f4f2d2e108 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-info.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cpu-info.h
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ struct cpuinfo_mips {
 	 * (shifted by _CACHE_SHIFT)
 	 */
 	unsigned int		writecombine;
+	/*
+	 * Simple counter to prevent enabling HTW in nested
+	 * htw_start/htw_stop calls
+	 */
+	unsigned int		htw_seq;
 } __attribute__((aligned(SMP_CACHE_BYTES)));
 
 extern struct cpuinfo_mips cpu_data[];