[PATCH] powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 19 13:17:22 EST 2011
We already did it for hard IRQs but it looks like we forgot
to do it for softirqs. Without this, we would lose flags
such as TIF_NEED_RESCHED set using current_thread_info()
by something running of a softirq.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 164fb6c..4e7f1aa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -451,11 +451,18 @@ static inline void do_softirq_onstack(void)
curtp = current_thread_info();
irqtp = softirq_ctx[smp_processor_id()];
irqtp->task = curtp->task;
+ irqtp->flags = 0;
current->thread.ksp_limit = (unsigned long)irqtp +
_ALIGN_UP(sizeof(struct thread_info), 16);
call_do_softirq(irqtp);
current->thread.ksp_limit = saved_sp_limit;
irqtp->task = NULL;
+
+ /* Set any flag that may have been set on the
+ * alternate stack
+ */
+ if (irqtp->flags)
+ set_bits(irqtp->flags, &curtp->flags);
}
void do_softirq(void)
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