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 <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.17+
Cc: [email protected]
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9118/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>

0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions