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powerpc: warn on emulation of dcbz instruction in kernel mode 

dcbz instruction shouldn't be used on non-cached memory. Using
it on non-cached memory can result in alignment exception and
implies a heavy handling.

Instead of silentely emulating the instruction and resulting in high
performance degradation, warn whenever an alignment exception is
taken in kernel mode due to dcbz, so that the user is made aware that
dcbz instruction has been used unexpectedly by the kernel.

Reported-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2e3acfe63d289c6fba366e16973c9ab8369e8b75.1631803922.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Christophe Leroy 2021-09-16 16:52:09 +02:00 committed by Michael Ellerman
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@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ int fix_alignment(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (op.type != CACHEOP + DCBZ)
return -EINVAL;
PPC_WARN_ALIGNMENT(dcbz, regs);
WARN_ON_ONCE(!user_mode(regs));
r = emulate_dcbz(op.ea, regs);
} else {
if (type == LARX || type == STCX)