[PATCH 1/4] powerpc/e500v2: Save SPEFCSR in flush_spe_to_thread()

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Mar 29 06:24:54 EST 2011


From: yu liu <yu.liu at freescale.com>

giveup_spe() saves the SPE state which is protected by MSR[SPE].
However, modifying SPEFSCR does not trap when MSR[SPE]=0.
And since SPEFSCR is already saved/restored in _switch(),
not all the callers want to save SPEFSCR again.
Thus, saving SPEFSCR should not belong to giveup_spe().

This patch moves SPEFSCR saving to flush_spe_to_thread(),
and cleans up the caller that needs to save SPEFSCR accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Liu Yu <yu.liu at freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
Kumar, could you ack this to go via the KVM tree, since the KVM
SPE save/restore patches depend on it?

 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S |    2 --
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c        |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c          |    5 +----
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
index 3e02710..b84fc5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
@@ -792,8 +792,6 @@ _GLOBAL(giveup_spe)
 	evmwumiaa evr6, evr6, evr6	/* evr6 <- ACC = 0 * 0 + ACC */
 	li	r4,THREAD_ACC
 	evstddx	evr6, r4, r3		/* save off accumulator */
-	mfspr	r6,SPRN_SPEFSCR
-	stw	r6,THREAD_SPEFSCR(r3)	/* save spefscr register value */
 	beq	1f
 	lwz	r4,_MSR-STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD(r5)
 	lis	r3,MSR_SPE at h
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index f74f355..138e7dd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ void flush_spe_to_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 			BUG_ON(tsk != current);
 #endif
+			tsk->thread.spefscr = mfspr(SPRN_SPEFSCR);
 			giveup_spe(tsk);
 		}
 		preempt_enable();
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index bd74fac..0ed23d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1356,10 +1356,7 @@ void SPEFloatingPointException(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	int code = 0;
 	int err;
 
-	preempt_disable();
-	if (regs->msr & MSR_SPE)
-		giveup_spe(current);
-	preempt_enable();
+	flush_spe_to_thread(current);
 
 	spefscr = current->thread.spefscr;
 	fpexc_mode = current->thread.fpexc_mode;
-- 
1.7.1




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