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Commit 7ab0b7cb authored by Christophe Leroy's avatar Christophe Leroy Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/32: Add warning on misaligned copy_page() or clear_page()



copy_page() and clear_page() expect page aligned destination, and
use dcbz instruction to clear entire cache lines based on the
assumption that the destination is cache aligned.

As shown during analysis of a bug in BTRFS filesystem, a misaligned
copy_page() can create bugs that are difficult to locate (see Link).

Add an explicit WARNING when copy_page() or clear_page() are called
with misaligned destination.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6cea38f90480268d439ca44a645647e260fff09.1565941808.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
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