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Commit 15ee4734 authored by Grzegorz Bernacki's avatar Grzegorz Bernacki Committed by Rafal Jaworowski
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[PPC440SPe] Convert machine check exceptions handling


Convert using fixup mechanism to suppressing MCK for the duration of config
read/write transaction: while fixups work fine with the case of a precise
exception, we identified a major drawback with this approach when there's
an imprecise case. In this scenario there is the following race condition:
the fixup is (by design) set to catch the instruction following the one
actually causing the exception; if an interrupt (e.g. decrementer) happens
between those two instructions, the ISR code is executed before the fixup
handler the machine check is no longer protected by the fixup handler as it
appears as within the ISR code. In consequence the fixup approach is being
phased out and replaced with explicit suppressing of MCK during a PCIe
config read/write cycle.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGrzegorz Bernacki <gjb@semihalf.com>
parent a89cbbd2
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