[PATCH] powerpc: fix altivec_unavailable_exception Oopses

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Feb 22 22:46:30 EST 2006


Alan Curry writes:

> altivec_unavailable_exception is called without setting r3... it looks like
> the r3 that actually gets passed in as struct pt_regs *regs is the
> undisturbed value of r3 at the time the altivec instruction was encountered.

Nice catch!

Thanks,
Paul.



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