powerpc/tm: Abort on emulation and alignment faults

If we are emulating an instruction inside an active user transaction that
touches memory, the kernel can't emulate it as it operates in transactional
suspend context.  We need to abort these transactions and send them back to
userspace for the hardware to rollback.

We can service these if the user transaction is in suspend mode, since the
kernel will operate in the same suspend context.

This adds a check to all alignment faults and to specific instruction
emulations (only string instructions for now).  If the user process is in an
active (non-suspended) transaction, we abort the transaction go back to
userspace allowing the HW to roll back the transaction and tell the user of the
failure.  This also adds new tm abort cause codes to report the reason of the
persistent error to the user.

Crappy test case here http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/aligntm.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
index 84e04a0db0f8..c54bf3127651 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
@@ -161,9 +161,12 @@ kernel aborted a transaction:
                         transactions for consistency will use this.
  TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL        Signal delivered.
  TM_CAUSE_MISC          Currently unused.
+ TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT     Alignment fault.
+ TM_CAUSE_EMULATE       Emulation that touched memory.
 
-These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7].
-
+These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7].  If
+bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent.  For example
+a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.q
 
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