[PATCH 10/13] powerpc: Fix register clobbering when accumulating stolen time

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Mar 5 13:51:28 EST 2012


When running under a hypervisor that supports stolen time accounting,
we may call C code from the macro EXCEPTION_PROLOG_COMMON in the
exception entry path, which clobbers CR0.

However, the FPU and vector traps rely on CR0 indicating whether we
are coming from userspace or kernel to decide what to do.

So we need to restore that value after the C call

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
index 368f72f..50f73aa 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc_asm.h
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ BEGIN_FW_FTR_SECTION;							\
 	cmpd	cr1,r11,r10;						\
 	beq+	cr1,33f;						\
 	bl	.accumulate_stolen_time;				\
+	ld	r12,_MSR(r1);						\
+	andi.	r10,r12,MSR_PR;		/* Restore cr0 (coming from user) */ \
 33:									\
 END_FW_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR)
 
-- 
1.7.9



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