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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S6
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c13
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
index 316465a32a9c..5c43063d2506 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ exc_##n##_bad_stack: \
sth r1,PACA_TRAP_SAVE(r13); /* store trap */ \
b bad_stack_book3e; /* bad stack error */
+/* WARNING: If you change the layout of this stub, make sure you chcek
+ * the debug exception handler which handles single stepping
+ * into exceptions from userspace, and the MM code in
+ * arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c which patches the branch here
+ * and would need to be updated if that branch is moved
+ */
#define EXCEPTION_STUB(loc, label) \
. = interrupt_base_book3e + loc; \
nop; /* To make debug interrupts happy */ \
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",